"Human history can be viewed as a slowly dawning awareness that we are members of a larger group. Initially our loyalties were to ourselves and to our immediate family, next, to bands of wandering hunter-gathers, the to tribes, small settlements,city-states, nations. We have broadened the circles of those we love. We have now p=organized what are modestly described as superpowers, which include people from divergent ethical and cultural backgrounds working in some sense together- surely a humanizing and character building experience. If we are to survive, our loyalties must be broadened further, to include whole human community, the entire planet Earth. Many of those who run the nations will find this idea unpleasant. They will fear the loss of power. We will hear much about treason and disloyalty. Rich nation-states will have to share their wealth with poor ones. But the choice, as H.G. Wells once said in a different context, is clearly the universe or nothing" Carl Sagan
Posted on: Mon, 12 Aug 2013 05:10:50 +0000
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