Tragedy of Common Sense

I always feel perspective is all one needs.  We are so quick to judge others who blatantly supported slavery, the holocaust or even Apartheid.  We are quick to see ourselves as a civilized nation.  I hate, I despise the word civilized, what a load of bullshit!  We see ourselves as CIVILISED (urgh) if we have huge bank accounts, five cars, if you have a Sweet 16 that has the budget of a small African country… we feel we are CIVILISED if we destroy Earth to get what we like… we feel we are civilized if we are disconnect from the earth (our life force)…

Are we civilized for you?  No one dares to criticize CIVILIZATION; no one questions the importance of economic growth, no one questions wealth, no one questions the value a time or more important the value of life.  Don’t get me wrong, I do NOT feel human life is the most important thing; to put all of our focus on human life (OUR needs, OUR hobbies, OURSELVES ) as the ultimate goal is wrong – there is also something like life in totality, life as a whole, life in abundance, life of others and of the earth.

The first photo of earth was taken by the Apollo 8 space mission in 1968, it was called Spaceship Earth.  The Apollo mission went up and on the way up, an astronaut, Bill Anders, looked back and took this picture:

Now this is perspective.  Perspective is difficult to get; you can get it by removing yourself in space or in time.  It is easy to judge stuff that happened long ago, because you weren’t THERE, you weren’t the middle of it.  It is difficult to judge stuff happening all around you; then you need to remove yourself in space to get some perspective, to be objective.  And what better space than outer space?

There we are planet earth.  A small dot, a speck; blink and you miss it.  It is not abundances of resources, it is not infinite life and it is not forever.  It is earth, a crumb of life, your life and life in totality needs to be the priority, not civilization…