If we were visited by a superior species from another part of the galaxy, and we were forced to explain to them our stewardship of our planet, not to mention the state of human affairs today, would we be proud of what we described? ~ Carl Sagan How would we frame our explanation of how almost half of the world, over 3 billion people, are either barely surviving in abject poverty and sickness, - or are simply dying off unnecessarily at a rate of about one person every couple of seconds – all occurring in the wake of an advanced technological reality, where we could easily feed, clothe and house every family on Earth in a respectable standard of living? . How would we frame the global warfare: 230 million killed by their fellow man in the past 100 years alone. - based on what, meaningless territoriality, resources, dogmatic, obsolete ideologies? Again, this all occurring in the shadows of a looming scientific recognition, that we are indeed simply one family sharing one household, bound by the exact same laws of nature, and hence the same unifying operational ideology. How about our economic system, the bedrock of what defines our society, not to mention our dominant motivations? How would we explain the reality that, rather than organizing ourselves efficiently as a single system to properly manage this household we share, we childishly divide and compete and exploit each other through an archaic, completely environmentally decoupled game. A game, by the way, which not only appears to perpetuate a vast spectrum of social atrocities, but now seems to be further destabilizing society, decreasing our public health. Sorry to say, as an individual, I really dont care what you believe, nor do I particularly respect it. Why? Because I dont really respect what I believe either. ~ Peter Joseph
Posted on: Fri, 09 Jan 2015 21:47:59 +0000
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