This contention is really really wrong.

If everything in the universe suddenly got 100 times larger — and I am assuming we are talking the macro scale here — many bad things would happen all at once. So, so many bad things.

Your blood would no longer flow. You’d die from that pretty quickly. Also, gravity would be absolutely crushing, also preventing blood flow. And, you know, literally crushing you. The atmosphere at sea level would also be so dense that breathing would be impossible, even ignoring gravity and all other factors. And you’d begin overheating — even if you survived all the other things — in very short order since volume increases faster than surface area, and 100x increase for an endotherm is huge.

The only thing that might — might — survive for a little while are some fish. And then the sun would go supernova and then black hole shortly (assuming the 100x larger earth were moved out to the correct distance for a 100x larger sun) and it’d all end, anyway.

When you know nothing about anything, everything seems possible.

For years, various Native American cultures were denigrated and mocked for using mind-altering substances and experiences like peyote and sweat lodges.

However, the same people doling out the derision would then pay rather high prices to watch films and read books which inarguably do the very same thing: produce shared hallucinations that are culturally and individually significant.

Just another version of what I do seems normal, what someone else does is bizarre and wrong.

But have you really thought about how odd movies are, especially as a communal event?

Sitting in a room with a dozen or a hundred other people watching flickering light and reacting often as if you’re sharing the experiences of the characters on the screen (particularly if the movie is good)?

Considered from a cultural distance — say from the perspective a culture that had never invented films — that seems really just quite strange.