During the last 200 years, the blackbird has abandoned the woods to
become a city bird…and yet no one dares to interpret the last two
centuries as the history of the invasion of man’s cities by the blackbird.
All of us have become prisoners of a rigid conception of what, is
important and what is not, and so we fasten our anxious gaze on the
important while from a hiding place behind our backs, the unimportant
wages its guerrilla war, which will end in surreptitiously changing the
world and pouncing on us by surprise.

Milan Kundera, The Book of Laughter Forgetting (1996, 26)