Psychologists and philosophers created a world where anxiety, fear and struggle are the norm, where happiness and peace are impossible to attain or available only to the most adept after long torment, and where existence is, above all, futile. In this world, people must constantly struggle with and repress what is supposedly their true nature for an end that is, at best, an abstract morality. Any outside assistance is impossible as all interpersonal interactions are also a continual existential struggle. Every outside person can only be the subject or the subjugated in this world, and all love is simply object desire. Existence here has no joy, no connection and no purpose. The happy ending is death.
The cosmos was discovered only yesterday. For a million years it was clear to everyone that there were no other places than the earth. Then in the last tenth of a percent of the lifetime of our species, in the instant between Aristarchus and ourselves, we reluctantly noticed that we were not the centre and purpose of the universe, but rather lived on a tiny and fragile world lost in immensity and eternity, drifting in a great cosmic ocean dotted here and there with a hundred billion galaxies and a billion trillion stars.
Ingin rasanya mempercepat waktu, membagi diagonal-diagonal sisi dekade ke dalam batas-batas simetri satuan hari, menciptakan dimensi-dimensi cahaya yang bergerak cepat dalam mengarungi lautan mimpi yang terukir indah dalam lamunan ilusi, memancarkan gelombang fantasi yang merambat dengan frekuensi tinggi, mampu menembus tebalnya dinding piramida bahagia. Kesemuanya, hanya demi satu tujuan, mempersingkat daya jelajah ke titik klimaks, menuju kondisi real di masa depan
You were the first to demonstrate beyond question by your experience that man is man everywhere, that is, a kind, sociable being with whom communication can and should be established through kindness and truth, not guns and spirits. I do not know what contribution your collections and discoveries will make to the science for which you serve, but your experience of contacting the primitive peoples will make an epoch in the science for which I serve i.e. the science which teaches how human beings should live with one another. ββLeo Tolstoy, to N. N. Miklhouho-Maclay, September 1886 [