I’ve recently come to think of “Turtles All The Way Down” differently.

To me it used to mean, grant me the first miracle and I’ll explain the rest.

In religion that first miracle is God. In science that first miracle is The Big Bang.

In Spirituality that first miracle is Consciousness.

For Flat Earthers that first miracle is the first Turtle that the flat earth rests upon the back of.

For Bitcoiners that first miracle is Satoshi Nakamoto.

I’ve used in tongue in check as an amused mockery of our desperation, as humankind, to explain that which we cannot.

Having recently become a pupil of the teachings of Ayn Rand, I’ve come to think of Turtles All The Way Down in a more literal sense. I’ve come to see Turtles as those who Ayn Rand would call The Producers, those who are able to THINK and to ACT in accordance with their thoughts. Where their thoughts and their actions move them intentionally forward towards a net positive GOOD.

TATWD in the literal sense because the earth, as we know it, does rest on the backs of producers and it is producers all the way down.

Try to live in a world made only of looters and moochers, how long would it take you to starve?

To keep myself on track, each day I ask myself what am I producing? Will it be useful for humankind 100 years from now? That is how I know I’m producing something worthwhile, not something trivial and frivolous.

What are you producing today?