"In our obscurity, in all this vastness, there is no hint that help will come from elsewhere to save us from ourselves." ~Carl Sagan No one will come to our aid when we are on the edge of destroying ourselves. No one will help us rebuild the world that has collapsed before us. No one will save us from ourselves, from the harm we do to each other and our dying planet. Once we have lost it all, no one will remember us for the things we've done, because there will be no one to remember.
What have we achieved creating chaos? Destroying homes and killing innocents. What kind of danger would arise if we treated each other equally? Respectfully? What is the point of judging others based off of their race or colour? We live on this pale blue dot. A dot can you believe it? Everything we've done, everything we fight for lives on a tiny blue dot. It's our home, our safe place, but is it really safe if we're all against each other? Many of the problems we face are man made. We've created them and we're trying to solve them, well most of us anyway. Past wars and on going wars have occurred, most of which were to claim a piece of land. All those people lost their lives for a piece of land, a fraction of a tiny pale blue dot. eventually we will achieve peace, but when? Yes there are many organizations working towards peace. Working to create a better world for generations to come. When and if that that time comes will we, humans, be alive to see it? Or will we have perished into the infinite blue sky's. We did not find the self destruct button, we created it. At the end of the day we only have each other, no other souls who live elsewhere will find and save us. Therefore we must treat each other kindly, respectfully and equally.
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I would take Castle Towers-Garibaldi Park B.C. by Jock MacDonald. It is a very bright and beautiful piece of work and it seems very peaceful and calming to me. The painting seems to be pointed upward towards the sky. To me the sky seems to give much hope. I like to think of the sky as our world and the clouds as change. In conclusion the artwork itself has a very vibrant yet peaceful aura that you are immediately drawn to.
I believe that discrimination has divided us humans and prevented what could've been a better world. This leads me to believe that if discrimination didn't exist or ceased to exist the human race would've accomplished much more. Many, many years ago people were discriminated because of the colour of their skin (they also discriminated people for other reasons). They were not treated equally, in fact they were treated as if they were less. Imagine what those people could have been doing instead of fighting for rights that they should've already had. Over the years, things change as the earth orbits the sun. Now people don't discriminate others, well most people don't. In summary, I think that we would've accomplished much more in past years and come much further if we had solved at least one of the problems we had.
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