There was quite recently a great hoopla about a possible microbe found on Mars and about the same time there was a widely commented on photo of a rich man posing with the corpse of a just slain elephant that he had shot in the head for fun. We are reality challenged. Some of us are so excited about life somewhere else, as you say, Juan, but the life all around us is apparently worthless. We do not recognize that we are a part of this biosphere. We feel alone, but we do not stop to look around and see that we aren't alone. We just do not know how to communicate with, listen to and understand the life around us. With each passing day we see our children taught to be consumers rather than developing humans in a great wondrous adventure. Huge numbers of humans and other species die preventable deaths, yet in this country, in particular, it seems we are just to accept these deaths as unavoidable. I think this is insane. I think modern life is insane. You may have been to harsh on the Dodos. At least they didn't take the whole planet with them.
Thank you for your condolences, Mr Rouhani.
There was quite recently a great hoopla about a possible microbe found on Mars and about the same time there was a widely commented on photo of a rich man posing with the corpse of a just slain elephant that he had shot in the head for fun. We are reality challenged. Some of us are so excited about life somewhere else, as you say, Juan, but the life all around us is apparently worthless. We do not recognize that we are a part of this biosphere. We feel alone, but we do not stop to look around and see that we aren't alone. We just do not know how to communicate with, listen to and understand the life around us. With each passing day we see our children taught to be consumers rather than developing humans in a great wondrous adventure. Huge numbers of humans and other species die preventable deaths, yet in this country, in particular, it seems we are just to accept these deaths as unavoidable. I think this is insane. I think modern life is insane. You may have been to harsh on the Dodos. At least they didn't take the whole planet with them.