John Green wrote “but the really scary thing is not turning and turning in the widening gyre; it’s turning and turning in a tightening gyre. It’s getting sucked into a whirlpool that shrinks and shrinks and shrinks your world until you’re just spinning without moving, stuck inside a prison cell that is exactly the size of you, until you realise you are not actually in the prison cell. You are the prison cell.”
and he concluded with hope, “Spirals grow infinitely small the farther you follow them inward, but they also grow infinitely large the farther you follow them out.”
it truly is turtles all the way down.