No more Us and Them thinking

Astronaut Rusty Schweikart, circling the earth on Apollo 9, put that powerful idea into words.

“When you go around it in an hour and a half, you begin to recognize that your identity is with that whole thing, and that makes a change. You look down there and you can’t imagine how many borders and boundaries you cross again and again and again, and you don’t even see them. There you are: hundreds of people killing each other over some imaginary line that you’re not even aware of, that you can’t see. From where you see it, the thing isa whole, and it’s so beautiful. You wish you could take one person in each hand and say, “Look at it from this perspective. What’s important?”

You realize that on that same small spot, that little blue and white thing is everything that means anything to you: all of history, and music, and poetry, and art, and birth, and love, tears, joy, games. All of it on that little spot out there that you can cover with your thumb.”