Time & Perspective Quote by Krist Novoselic

Novoselic is describing fame the way it actually feels when it hits: not like a victory lap, but like a weird weather system. The language is physical and spatial - "center of the world", "little strip of land" - because the experience he’s trying to name is less about ego than scale. Seattle shrinks and expands at the same time. It’s provincial geography turned into a global stage by cameras, cable, and the sudden machinery of attention.

The key move is the jump from a private sensation ("It felt like...") to a mass psychic event ("collective consciousness"). That’s a musician groping for a word big enough to contain the early-90s media moment when grunge wasn’t just a sound but a televised referendum on authenticity. MTV and network news didn’t merely document the scene; they consecrated it. Novoselic frames himself as a "witness", not an author, which subtly dodges the heroic narrative and hints at disorientation: history is happening through you, not because of you.

There’s also a quiet irony baked into "the whole world was watching on television". The intimacy of a local community gets translated into broadcast spectacle, and the band members become both participants and content. His "collective consciousness" isn’t mystical; it’s the sensation of millions of eyes collapsing onto one place, one night, one performance - a reminder that cultural power in that era traveled through screens. Seattle becomes less a city than a signal, and he can feel the signal buzzing in his bones.