2005-01-17 
 

viva la differance!

Today M told me that children who are consistently exposed to pictures of Earth taken from space think more easily of our planet as a single entity within which we must all work together for the common good.

Tonight, G and I played a couple rounds of cards on the computer while chatting on the phone. The 3000 miles between us melted away briefly. If only we could solve the teleportation conundrum, this world would become yet even more connected and more able to think of ourselves as a cohesive unit. Then the dream of erasing the arbitrary lines we draw between different nations would be a huge step closer to becoming reality.

My inner cynic, never silent, whispers that Hitler had a similar dream of one world, but I'm not about erasing differences. I celebrate differences and work towards the day when unreasonable fears of them disappear.

Easy exposure to different ways of looking at life allows acceptance and cooperation to flourish. Continuing to abide by the imaginary borders we've drawn between ourselves as countries, races and creeds only serves to escalate the fear and distrust.

Since teleportation may be a bit in the future, you can look for a globular update of this site as soon as I can get back to FTPing images to the home page.

Labels: dose of mikey, g, looking eastward

* posted by me at 2:10 AM

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