TThat dot in the image on your screen? That dot is us. Thatâs Earth. In 1990 the Voyager 1 space probe, on its travels across our solar system was turned around to snap this picture. If a species could only think beyond their sight, and take what limited knowledge they have to understand the basics of living are actually quite simple if we disregarded the pointless boundaries of economic prosperity and political disagreement. Everything we face in our challenge to lead happy lives is tied to these faulty designs for a âsuccessful societyâ. Sadly, a species cannot be expected to think even beyond their imaginations. Science Astronomer, Carl Sagan had this to say in his book, Pale Blue Dot, âLook again at that dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every "superstar," every "supreme leader," every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there-on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam. The Earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena. Think of the endless cruelties visited by the inhabitants of one corner of this pixel on the scarcely distinguishable inhabitants of some other corner, how frequent their misunderstandings, how eager they are to kill one another, how fervent their hatreds. Think of the rivers of blood spilled by all those generals and emperors so that, in glory and triumph, they could become the momentary masters of a fraction of a dot. Our posturings, our imagined self-importance, the delusion that we have some privileged position in the Universe, are challenged by this point of pale light. Our planet is a lonely speck in the great enveloping cosmic dark. In our obscurity, in all this vastness, there is no hint that help will come from el https://www.instagram.com/p/BtulvKYhlQB/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=14z7279m47kw8
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