Dr. Ed Tori traces a single delivered package back through its hidden dependencies: the driver's health, the truck's parts, mined metals, machinery, inventors' education, teachers, farmers, soil, and sun. Every link in the chain must work together, revealing an invisible web of human labor and natural forces most people never see.
Now, what does this have to do with my package? I picked up the package and all of a sudden I had this flood of thought that was like, the driver who brought this here, he or she needed to be healthy. They needed to have a job. They needed to be able to walk. They needed to be able to carry the package. They carry the package, they put it on my doorstep. They needed a truck. That truck needed parts. Those parts needed metal and other materials. Those materials needed mines and people in labs working on the material. Development. They needed people in the mines who harvest the materials for the different metals. The mines needed machines. The machines needed inventors. The inventors needed teachers. The teachers needed food. The food needed farmers, right? The farmers needed sun and soil and all the other things that are provided by God and the unseen forces in the universe. Like all of these things, because a package arrived on my door. It's a single cardboard box delivered by thousands of invisible strings and threads that I didn't really ever consider.
