the old authorities are dead...

we have an understanding that by 1900, the old authorities, the
ideologies of religion, god, the church were dead…
and we understood that the old political ideals of the monarchy
and nobles were dead… and we understood that the old ideals of
man/human beings as the center of the universe was dead…
killed by science…

the beliefs and ism’s of a thousand years were demolished, almost overnight
and we didn’t have any replacements for those long held beliefs and ideologies…

and this is the battle going on today… we are a problem to ourselves
as to what it means to be human and we don’t see a solution, either writen
in the books of man or in the books of nature…

I believe that the event that will shock us into a firm and set belief of
being human will be the day we find out that there is life outside of earth…
because we can oppose life here on earth to the life that exists elsewhere…

the old, very old, US vs, THEM idea of existence…we are human beings
and they are… well whatever they are… and that knowledge will give us
a new understanding of what it means to be human…

and all the old indecisions about what it means to be human, the knowledge lost/
stolen by the various revolutions, will be forgotten in a new understanding of
human existence caused by the arrival of life outside of earth…

Kropotkin