“If the bee disappeared off the surface of the globe, then man would have only four years of life left. No more bees, no more pollination, no more plants, no more animals, no more man.”

― Albert Einstein

Relativity is one of the things Einstein is known for. It’s the idea that everything is woven together and the reality of one side is tied to the reality of others. Our body works this way. Each organ is in charge of its own processes but is intrinsically important for the survival of the others and the body as a whole. Our economy has similar traits, where each part must work together with trust for the wheels to crank, for the machine to roll on.

As with all games, a willingness to play and the effort to participate is necessary. We need sides to push and pull and problems to overcome. The warmth of spring pulls the flowers out while the winter pushes them closed. A dance of this sort plays out on a myriad of levels throughout our day. At the market, a vendor assesses the demand for a product, its shelf-life, their rent, and the state of the economy to price their products. We push on doors to see where the weakness might lie, bluffing and bantering our way through complex agreements that require both sides to play by real and imaginary ideas rooted not only in law but also in how we see the rules. Even family values and how we see right and wrong come into play.

We are the bees and the plants and the animals. I assume Einstein meant that consciousness is relative as well. If we do not exist, then what happens to those below us? If we cannot be here, is any of it here to exist without our recognition and observation? Now that Einstein is gone, nothing more exists to him. His rules and name remain, but he is no longer here to observe and build upon them. Like Einstein, the bees and flowers of today are offsprings of an earlier game, a simpler mechanism, and a different throw of some galactical dice. Today’s moments and motions get a chance to play or compete together, but either way, they’re doomed to nonexistence. Such is the final plot in all these games.