“In our obscurity, in all this vastness, there is no hint that help will come from elsewhere to save us from ourselves.”
This sentence and its whole speech makes you realize things you never thought importance of before. This sentence is humanities wrecking ball that destroys all of hopes skyscrapers and cities, gone like a puff of smoke blown down instantly. That’s when it came to me. If someone were to explain a child something like war, and of all the cruelties humanity has brought upon themselves and others they would either never be able to look at another human the same again. Or they simply wouldn’t understand, there’s only two chooses; pick one. There really was never a point in time when humans ever lived in an entirely peaceful manner, no living creature on this planet known to man does. There truly is a difference however; animals and creatures act on instinct or for self defense. If humans see themselves as important and superior to all, why do have wars? We think ourselves as evolved and extremely intelligent with this view of a “miracle” system where the 2000 generation only care about stuffing their faces in modern technology such as computers, iPhones, television etc. Even I am right now writing this. Yet we still fight each other like we have nothing better to do. Why? Just like we did as children we always blame something that we did on the other using these words, “They started it!” It seems we still haven’t realized that sometimes it’s our own fault. Some adults have realized maybe all, but we still manage to forget sometimes and resort to violence. If we are so special and intelligent why haven’t figured out a way to live together in peace and harmony. Like just the other day America announced that their mission in Syria was completed, even in 2018 we are incapable of accomplishing this task that so many have wanted since humans first created society. We hear this word every Remembrance Day. Peace. If we can’t even understand other inhabitants of this planet, how are we expected to act if say aliens accidentally discovered earth and truly meant no harm. Humans never changing our animal like behavior we probably are going to start a war with another planet or galaxy full of such aliens! Who knows what kind advancements they have; we could be obliterated in minutes or seconds! Or they might in their own manner believe that they can save us from ourselves. We probably need it, but who would want to help us? Maybe we could be all alone in this universe, and no one will come when we call for help, it will continue to echo in the vast and dark matters of outer space, never finding its destination.
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I would choose Lui Shou Kwan as I know that most people will choose Emily Carr, to know what he saw through his eyes when he painted and why that. Or ask him why he showed traditional Chinese art with the modern. Maybe to know the reason he always included the lotus symbol, maybe if something happened in his life were he sought out enlightenment?
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