Yeah, JL, the process of creation and entropy on scales (almost…maybe mostly) beyond our ken. Our species is fascinating…intelligent, inquisitive, adventurous, creative and imaginative…..and greedy, cruel and destructive, and we’ve managed to do quite a bit to despoil this “pale blue dot”. Somehow I doubt those who have been in space and…
Yeah, JL, the process of creation and entropy on scales (almost…maybe mostly) beyond our ken. Our species is fascinating…intelligent, inquisitive, adventurous, creative and imaginative…..and greedy, cruel and destructive, and we’ve managed to do quite a bit to despoil this “pale blue dot”. Somehow I doubt those who have been in space and viewed our home in its place in our solar system come back and exclaim “drill baby drill!”. We have come to comprehend some of the mysteries of the cosmos, looking outward into deep space (the images/info from the James Webb scope are amazing) and down to the micro level of genes and particles. And yet….sigh…. We think about how we might communicate with “aliens” and yet don’t seem to give the same effort to our fellow species, some which are quite intelligent. Recently I read something about the brain size of dolphins/porpoises & the size of their prefrontal cortex & it made me think that the way they look at us—following along with boats and surfacing, perhaps in an effort to communicate (?), kinda twinkly-eyed and grins….that they know something about living and just “being” in this world & they are laughing at our foolishness & wasted potential. And that we humans, a lot of us anyway, have forgotten the concept of “enough” and of “the commons”, something we all (or most) benefit from and (should) contribute to. I have written here several time that the only reason I’d want to live forever is to know how it all turns out. There is supposed to be another 5 billion years to evolve new species/ecosystems before our sun does the red giant thing & earth is basically toast….so seems we are about 1/2 way our time before we are recycled into, er, something else.
Yeah, JL, the process of creation and entropy on scales (almost…maybe mostly) beyond our ken. Our species is fascinating…intelligent, inquisitive, adventurous, creative and imaginative…..and greedy, cruel and destructive, and we’ve managed to do quite a bit to despoil this “pale blue dot”. Somehow I doubt those who have been in space and viewed our home in its place in our solar system come back and exclaim “drill baby drill!”. We have come to comprehend some of the mysteries of the cosmos, looking outward into deep space (the images/info from the James Webb scope are amazing) and down to the micro level of genes and particles. And yet….sigh…. We think about how we might communicate with “aliens” and yet don’t seem to give the same effort to our fellow species, some which are quite intelligent. Recently I read something about the brain size of dolphins/porpoises & the size of their prefrontal cortex & it made me think that the way they look at us—following along with boats and surfacing, perhaps in an effort to communicate (?), kinda twinkly-eyed and grins….that they know something about living and just “being” in this world & they are laughing at our foolishness & wasted potential. And that we humans, a lot of us anyway, have forgotten the concept of “enough” and of “the commons”, something we all (or most) benefit from and (should) contribute to. I have written here several time that the only reason I’d want to live forever is to know how it all turns out. There is supposed to be another 5 billion years to evolve new species/ecosystems before our sun does the red giant thing & earth is basically toast….so seems we are about 1/2 way our time before we are recycled into, er, something else.
"I want to say, like Neruda,
that I am waiting for
'a great and common tenderness,'
that I still believe
we are capable of attention,
that anyone who notices the world
must want to save it. "
From "Testimony" - Rebecca Baggett