It is likely true. But such an explanation tells us very little about the life we actually live day-to-day. This explanation hides its narrow-mindedness behind a wall of scientific jargon.

Suonsilmä was born in a time when these kinds of “smart-aleck” explanations are very much in fashion. In a time ruled by a quiet but stubborn belief that there is an answer for everything. An engineered, one-dimensional answer. A vague politician’s answer will also do. Anything to maintain the feeling that someone, somewhere, has the situation under control. Even though they don’t.

For example, when we ask: “Why does reality exist?” Or: “Why is there something rather than nothing?” There is always someone who feels the need to answer: Because Big Bang.

Another answers: God.

And sometimes, someone comes up with the kind of answer that gets other people to do their work, to fight wars, and to build empires.

Driven by the power of “know-it-all” attitude, generation after generation, we seek the guidance of charismatic leaders. We seek cults, religions, societies, and jobs. We seek answers that sound good and offer order, but in doing so, we shut something out: the infinity of the questions.

Why is there something rather than nothing? It is a question worth our wonder.

There is a beauty in questions that vanishes the moment they are answered. When the superposition collapses. When reality chooses its path. Our eyes become blindfolded to all other alternatives.

When we believe that an answer exists for everything, we inadvertently begin to deny the mysterious and contradictory nature of the universe. Our perspective narrows, and we reject the multiplicity of truth. For many of us, it is impossible to grasp that “because of the Big Bang” explains absolutely nothing about the origin of reality.

Today, we are in a situation where clearing forests and draining mires can feel justified: for the sake of economic growth, for the sake of society, for the sake of survival. By the permission of gods. Because of the Big Bang.

In this way, we bypass the fact that we have no idea what the purpose of this reality is. We still do not know the ultimate purpose of nature, of forests, and of mires. Yet, we decided to destroy them. We do not know what time is. Yet, we waste it worshiping some charismatic leaders.

Hopefully, we haven’t broken anything essential.