"No man is an island,
Entire of itself.
Each is a piece of the continent,
A part of the main.
If a clod be washed away by the sea,
Europe is the less.
As well as if a promontory were.
As well as if a manor of thine own
Or of thine friend's were.
Each man's death diminishes me,
For I am involved in mankind.
Therefore, send not to know
For whom the bell tolls,
It tolls for thee."
(John Donne)
Lets suppose for a moment, the earths inhabitants consist of 10 people living in one house. This one is doing this, and that one is doing that. mostly content going about the day to day fillings of life.
One day one of them dies. The earths people surely felt the loss. They wept and mourned.
Now there were only 9
A few months later one of them gave birth to twin boys. Oh how the people rejoiced! Welcome, new members of the people of earth!
Now there were 11 . . . .
Fast forward however many years any given "expert" says we've been evolving, to present day.
The bell still tolls, but has it become too far away to be heard? Has the sheer mass caused it to lose significance? Is that simply the nature of things?
Bigger is better, right?
It boggles my mind that in just my lifetime the population of the earth has more than doubled.
Where are we headed? What will become of us?
I know! Lets go trash mars! ?
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