Think about how we view the ocean today, versus how people viewed the ocean hundreds of years ago. The same phenomena meant really different things to different groups of people in different cultural contexts and historical moments. The same is true with the view of the earth from space. &quot;The Overview Effect&quot; is the product of cold war total-system thinking; a combination of the gaia hypothsis, the blue marble, and &quot;spaceship earth&quot;. Here is a really good paper--Bimm, &quot;Rethinking The Overview Effect&quot; (2014)--about the historical specificity of &quot;overview&quot; an how it is a cultural, rather than natural, product. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.academia.edu&#x2F;5995107&#x2F;Rethinking_the_Overview_Effect" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.academia.edu&#x2F;5995107&#x2F;Rethinking_the_Overview_Eff...</a>