The Solar Perspective

What It Is

 

            What is the Solar Perspective?  Where does it come from?  Why is it important?  The simplest explanation of "what it is" is to imagine the perspective of someone outside our world observing us from afar.  Such a person would certainly not identify us by country or race or sex, probably not even by planet.  Such a person would identify us by our star.  The name of our star is Sol.  We most often call it the sun, but "the sun" is really generic.  If we visited a planet orbiting another star, we could properly call that star "the sun".  Sol is the name of our star, specifically, and the Solar System is that region of space, the specific three-dimensional chunk of real estate occupied by our star and its attendant planets.

 

            The Solar Perspective is the key element to any emergent or future solar age.  An irony of these final years of the 20th Century is that so much good has happened.  As with the trip to the moon, we are doing many of the right things, or at least heading in the right direction, but often for the wrong reason or even the wrong way.  International bonds draw peoples together, both regionally and globally, but supernational tendencies are held at bay by nationalistic forces and habits.  Free trade associations flourish, but free people unions are not even considered.  The European Union has spent two generations working out ever more complete, and ever more complex, trade ties, down to the minutiae of trying to make sure parts built in one country fit machines built in the other, but the concept of Union citizenship remains moribund.  A Frenchman can reside in, own property in, do all manner of business in Britain, Germany, the Netherlands, but is still a citizen of France, not Britain or Germany, or even Europe.  Each member remains free to go to war on its own, even though most cannot be attacked without joint response due to membership in NATO.  But, it is the status of the nation that rules, not the Union or the individual.

 

 

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