My opinions are generated by analogies, which are further modified by opinion of others (if they are relevant) . Those opinions further move ahead of what i see and go towards what's hidden from my eyes. So is my new thought about Universe as a civilization. Well in some way it already is, but talking about possibilities lets first observe the civilization and societies that we are part of.
What makes a society? The answer is Individuals who hold a position or a role in the society. They share their culture with others and this makes society, a bigger, more complex and stronger unit. With this small definition we can identify tens in our locality, hundreds in state, thousands in country and infinitely many societies on the planet 'Earth'.Different individuals from different societies still sharing a common culture or specialty can be imagined to be forming another society which is small in number of members yet large in scope in the sense that it is linking individuals who don't even know each other.
Consider this planet Earth, not as home of millions of societies but as on e such individual which forms a bigger society. Make a guess, who the other individuals be? Aliens?, NO. The planets on which extra terrestrial forms exist will now be treated as other individuals. So what difference can we think of between us and alien life forms or ETs(extra terrestrials)? Looks? Intelligence? Physical Strength? Survival Needs? Don't we have these on earth too.
Someday if we meet the other life forms we might develop similar relation and hierarchy with them.
When a man saw;
stupid yet powerful animal, he tamed it.
more powerful man, he followed it.
man like him, he befriended him.
threat, he tried to eradicate it.
Such can happen if we discover other life forms, then we both will have options like those mentioned above.
At that point of time it won't matter whether some of residents of this planet are Black or White. We will only be representing this planet we have inherited everything from and it will be our choice whether we are smart enough to recognize our place in this universe and are strong enough to preserve it.
It is us who have to decide are we still going to magnify our differences and fight over it or embrace each other's sense of individuality and make our human race stronger and better, for it is each and every one of us who will be representing our place in the universe.
What makes a society? The answer is Individuals who hold a position or a role in the society. They share their culture with others and this makes society, a bigger, more complex and stronger unit. With this small definition we can identify tens in our locality, hundreds in state, thousands in country and infinitely many societies on the planet 'Earth'.Different individuals from different societies still sharing a common culture or specialty can be imagined to be forming another society which is small in number of members yet large in scope in the sense that it is linking individuals who don't even know each other.
Consider this planet Earth, not as home of millions of societies but as on e such individual which forms a bigger society. Make a guess, who the other individuals be? Aliens?, NO. The planets on which extra terrestrial forms exist will now be treated as other individuals. So what difference can we think of between us and alien life forms or ETs(extra terrestrials)? Looks? Intelligence? Physical Strength? Survival Needs? Don't we have these on earth too.
Someday if we meet the other life forms we might develop similar relation and hierarchy with them.
When a man saw;
stupid yet powerful animal, he tamed it.
more powerful man, he followed it.
man like him, he befriended him.
threat, he tried to eradicate it.
Such can happen if we discover other life forms, then we both will have options like those mentioned above.
At that point of time it won't matter whether some of residents of this planet are Black or White. We will only be representing this planet we have inherited everything from and it will be our choice whether we are smart enough to recognize our place in this universe and are strong enough to preserve it.
It is us who have to decide are we still going to magnify our differences and fight over it or embrace each other's sense of individuality and make our human race stronger and better, for it is each and every one of us who will be representing our place in the universe.
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