Chirp!

"The only real problem people have is that we don't know where we are. You consider that you have enemies. You make plans to harm them. You argue violently about a piece of clothing or a haircut. You throw a food wrapper out a car window. You refuse to accept an apology. You willfully stop talking to someone just to teach them a lesson. You feel you have to instruct everybody. You watch for insults. You are your only concern. People make war. People rape. People steal. People would have others obey rules they themselves feel above. If you look at him the wrong way he will attack you. If you wear the wrong color shirt in that neighborhood you could die. If you are the wrong color skin you can't live on this street. And while all this is happening, in reality we are on a little crumb of dirt and mud, spinning in a vastness so large we can't see how or where it ends. Our sun in the sky is one of a billion trillion. Take a spaceship to the moon and when you look back it's a speck of blue dirt you've come from. And deep down inside that speck, which itself is lost in the incalculable vastness of black, dark and wonder, someone thinks they have enemies. Is making plans to harm them. Is arguing over a haircut. Is stealing. Is killing someone with the approval of the state. Is watching for the slightest insult. If we remembered where we were, compared to the magnitude of everything else known or seen, we'd value perspective, and get the hell out of each other's faces."

Sir Mudkip Farqhuar


"If you really did actually see yourself living on a teeny tiny little planet in the middle of the great big universe and that you're one big rock away from the atmosphere being sucked off into the sun you wouldn't be such an asshole."

Mitch