Our Species!

If I step back and widen my view from here, close to home, to the world beyond, what I see is a similar picture: the rise of autocracy and not far behind - fascism.

And if I look at history this isn't the first time we've experienced this phenomenon.  It's a repeating pattern of what our species does, how we treat ourselves and others.  Not only do we not learn from the past, we become better at repeating our mistakes.  It's like being self destructive is part of our DNA.

So what to do - if anything?  We could stop trying to change what appears to be inevitable and just sit back and let it happen.  But that would be giving up, and another part of our DNA doesn't want to go down this path.  We could try something new, but given our history we don't appear to be capable of fundamentally altering the paradigm.

For now, I think I'll take a longer view, made possible by the pictures of the universe from the James Webb telescope.  What is our place in the trillions and trillions and trillions of galaxies?  We're such a minor player in the greater scheme of things we barely exist.  If our species has a limited life expectancy it really makes no difference, does it?

Our ego makes us care.  I think I'll leave it at that!