Monday, June 13, 2011

Our future horizons (#864)

Our actions must further our ideals. Our ideals must stem from more than just the status-quo. We need to define a future we are striving toward. In my ideal future we are conquering physics with more than a motivation based upon wealth, we are conquering physics with a passion based upon our own species survival. I am not saying we are in imminent danger of extinction, what I am saying is that we need to think like we are. I say this because we have no control over the greater environment we exist in. At any moment an earthquake, volcanic eruption or some other universal anomaly of a significant proportion could cause such damage to our planet that our very existence could be in jeopardy. I have always been one of those guys who plans for the worst but hopes for the best. Somehow that suits me perfectly. What this mindset that I have adopted also does is clear my mind of trivial irrelevancies and focuses me on the importance of marshaling our resources, both animate and inanimate, toward a life beyond our Earth. We need more than selfish motivation to move all together, we need a sense of shared sacrifice to do it, all of us. A sharpening of our perspectives toward prioritization. We have survived and gotten to a point in our evolution where we have a firm foundation of knowledge we can grow from. What we need now is a resolve to implement a process that enables us all to share in it. The current chaos of selfish driven advancements has reached it's end time and the new era of the shared knowledge and advancement into outer space is here. We would be foolish if we choose to ignore our opportunities, based upon foresight, without fighting for them. Our new era will not come about on it's own, we must sound the clarion call for all to hear and make known our hope for the future.

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