“Sometimes I think we’re alone. Sometimes I think we’re not. In either case, the thought is staggering.”
~Buckminster Fuller, inventor of the geodesic sphere/dome
Of the 100 trillion people who have ever lived on this earth, twelve humans have walked on the moon. Only 500 have ever been into space. In all the things that we thing we know and all our collective brilliance, that’s it.
We can’t even cure the common cold. Everyone still freaks out about the flu every year even though the yearly death toll is less than a single mass shooting so far. And people sit around trying to think of all the ways that they can take advantage of other people.
I heard a bit of trivia the other day, too, that if you lined up all the single red blood cells of every living person right now it would only stretch around the earth… once.
This thing we know as humanity is tremendously fragile.
I wrote my congressman today because I believe in something. I’ve never done that before. And I encourage you to do the same. No matter what you feel is right and however you would write it, that’s okay and I don’t care: you have a right to that opinion. I believe that people have a right to life before a right to “things.” But if more people believe that I’m wrong that believe I’m right… then that’s democracy and I guess I can live with that. Perhaps you should, too.
I believe that this American experiment will only succeed if the selfless outnumber the selfish. I grow discouraged these days.
“The good of the many outweighs the good of the few or the one.” ~Spock
I only wish more people could understand…
Stay tuned…
-Noah D.
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Other photographer friends posting a photo a day for 2013:
Jeff Montgomery
Mike James
Ashel Parsons
