Falling Birds.
The thing about "flight" is that it, in some ways, stands as the ultimate symbol of ingenuity conquering nature, a symbol of man's greatest power...but while we are able to fly to the moon, across the ocean, and around the world with relative ease, the slightest misstep, miscalculation, or malfunction immediately reveals how absolutely powerless we really are as we plummet back to Earth. It's not to say this power we have isn't real, it's the realization that our "power", no matter how widespread, is in no way absolute or permanent.
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