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Astra inclinant, sed non obligant; while naturally we had certain expectations for how this mission would go, we aren’t infallible.
They still build societies around their least and worst instead of the best and brightest.
Only a few can have everything, don’t you see? What these people believe isn’t feasible. They want everything for everyone, and look at where it’s gotten them! Half of them aren’t even men.
“We realized it was impossible to protect any one place if the place next door was drowning or on fire. We realized the old boundaries weren’t meant to keep the undesirable out, but to hoard resources within. And the hoarders were the core of the problem.”
“Yes, some new technology emerged once everyone was permitted a decent education. But there was no trick to it. No quick fix. The problem wasn’t technological.” What, then? “I told you. People just decided to take care of each other.”
“I took you to the museum on a whim. To enjoy the irony. For all these centuries, the Founders told us that the Earth died because of greed. That was true, but they lied about whose greed was to blame.
The idea of doing something without immediate benefit, something that might only pay off in ten, twenty, or a hundred years, something that might benefit people they disliked, was anathema to the Founders. Even though that was precisely the kind of thinking that the world needed to survive.”
“What the Leaving proved was that the Earth could sustain billions, if we simply shared resources and responsibilities in a sensible way. What it couldn’t sustain was a handful of hateful, self-important parasites, preying upon and paralyzing everyone else. As soon as those people left, the paralysis ended.”
Six billion people working toward a goal together is much more effective than a few dozen scrabbling for themselves.”
Sometimes that’s all it takes to save a world, you see. A new vision. A new way of thinking, appearing at just the right time.”
We’ll tell we’ll tell we’ll tell.
😂
Can’t start a revolution with the enemy shouting in your head, after all.”
