Estación: claridad

«Within our lifetimes, we’ve marveled as biologists have managed to look at ever smaller and smaller things. And astronomers have looked further and further into the dark night sky, back in time and out in space. But maybe the most mysterious of all is neither the small nor the large: it’s us, up close. Could we even recognize ourselves, and if we did, would we know ourselves? What would we say to ourselves? What would we learn from ourselves? What would we really like to see if we could stand outside ourselves and look at us?»

-Another Earth

‘Siempre que afloran los prejuicios étnicos o nacionales, en tiempos de escasez, cuando se desafía a la autoestima o vigor nacional, cuando sufrimos por nuestro insignificante papel y significado cósmico o cuando hierve el fanatismo a nuestro alrededor, los hábitos de pensamiento familiares de épocas antiguas toman el control. La llama de la vela parpadea. Tiembla su pequeña fuente de luz. Aumenta la oscuridad. Los demonios empiezan a agitarse’.

~ El mundo y sus demonios, de Carl Sagan