The place to which the idea of surrender-and-catch is meant to speak is here, and the time out of which it comes and which it seeks to address is now. In a first approximation here is this Earth, the home of all human beings, and now is this time in human history. At this time in human history, the place in which all of us human beings live has shrunk as never before, and in more than one sense. Two senses at least are most pressing.