A public consensus is like ‘a fortified city built upon a high mountain’ (Thomas 32) – difficult to build, but also difficult to attack or ignore, or to change.
As Robert Theobald (1997) pointed out, our success (in exploiting resources for our own purposes) is now the greatest obstacle to our well-being.
Is there such a thing as progress toward a greater connectedness in this expanding universe?
Every day some connections are made, and some are broken.
We can only imagine where it’s all going.
Only you can imagine what we’re all doing.