Most people are fools of their age.
They repeat the stupidity of their own era.
Long ago, gods were invented.
Those who did not believe were killed.
Then came the prophets
and monotheism.
They proclaimed there was one God
and a single, fixed order of the world.
Those who did not believe were killed.
Then came the first scientists.
They proclaimed that the Earth was the centre of the world,
that everything revolved around it.
Those who disagreed were laughed at.
Then they realised that the Earth revolves around the Sun,
but thought the Solar System was the whole universe.
Those who disagreed were laughed at.
Then they realised the Milky Way exists
and proclaimed that it was the whole universe.
Those who thought otherwise were laughed at.
Then Hubble came
and realised that the universe is vast,
that the Milky Way is only one
among billions of galaxies.
But now we say
there is only this one universe.
Anyone who thinks otherwise
is ridiculous.
This is where we stand today.
I am expected to believe
that there is only one universe
and no intelligent beings
other than humans, and at the same time
Today, fools mix everything
science with monoteism
and these with spiritualism
and other bizarre combinations...
This morning at dawn, I was looking
at photographs from the James Webb Space Telescope,
And I thought:
The universe is unimaginably vast,
and it is not empty.
Nature is just a maximum level
of perfection.
Humanity is not special,
it is something smaller than an ant’s droppings
on one planet
among trillions of planets.
And this universe
may be only one among many.
And if a civilisation capable of travelling
through this immense space does exist,
Then it is undetectable to us.
Not because it is hiding,
But because it no longer has a body,
and mortality, because
Without immortality,
in a biological form,
travelling through deep space
is impossible.
The key to travelling through space
will be overcoming time.
Perhaps one day humanity will also become like that:
without a biological body,
living for millions of years,
becoming something
so different from anything
I cannot understand today,
So I do not even want to imagine it.
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