Given the situation I'm observing (and participating in) around me having returned to New York it might be time to share some insights that may or may not have anything to do with quantum mechanics (which I don't claim to understand).
The universe is really big. And you are really small compared to that universe, or your neighborhood, or your neighbor (maybe).
But there's a billion cells in your left ear, so you are also really big, compared to your nose, or a hamster. To a fly, your a mountain. That's why they're so much faster than you, btw.
This may be simple proof that perception of time is subjective, ie your entire life might encompass three orbits of Saturn (28.6 years x 3), but you'll outlive your hamsters, cats and other furry companions. Our feelings of impatience and sense of hopelessness might just be a natural result of encountering time scales that dwarf our existence.
Don't sweat it. It smells bad and makes you look untrustworthy.
In I [heart] Huckabees I most identify with the character played by Marky Mark, a frustrated aggressive male who's concern with global issues sets him at odds with the everyday banality of the American dillusion. I fear that others may percieve me as the character played by Jude Law, the lying faker wrapped up in a self centered illusion maintained by belittling others and manipulating the short sighted.
Enter the "wave-particle duality principle" of quantum physics; which holds that matter and light exhibit the behaviors of both waves and particles, depending upon the circumstances of the experiment. If you set up an experiment to prove that light consists of moving particles, well, it does appear so. Conversly, if you set up an experiment to prove that light consists of waves, then you got it.
This is only a paradox if you're really picky about Euclidean space (xyz) and linear time (t1,t2,t3...) which are just the results of experiments performed by dead white men.
Anyone who has ingested certain moldy substances and watched the sky melt can testify to the absurdity of such objective norms.
So: I may be both Marky Mark and Jude Law, but I get to decide which one I see in the mirror, and how I interract with the world. This in turn influences the way "they" see me (for better or worse). According to the latest science (which is always the best science) you cannot be an impartial observer. You are a participant with an active role in creating the perceptions you experience. The same goes for others, which is why it's so important to certain parties that you feel insignificant, mortal, impoverished, and insecure.
If you think you're fat, you look fat. If you think you're stupid, you look stupid, and so on. I think of myself as very wealthy, and do not let the absence of dollars in my wallet fool me into thinking otherwise. I know that sounds insane, but since everyone in our generation is bipolar anyway we might as well utilize the optimistic variant so as to humor our tumors.
So the dualities we percieve in the world around us are just that: percieved dualities. This does not grant them omnipotent powers over your life unless you let them.
