Little Blue Dot File

But the cosmos doesn’t care about our wiring. And that’s exactly why we need this image.

Scroll through your feed. You’ll see arguments. Sales pitches. Breakups. Lunch. A war on the other side of the world. A meme about a cat. A politician lying. A stranger crying. Little Blue Dot

That’s here. That’s home. That’s us. But the cosmos doesn’t care about our wiring

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There is no border in that pixel. No passport. No stock market. No “us” and “them.” No red state, blue state, no winning team, no losing team. Just a mote of dust — damp with oceans — floating in an endless, silent dark. You’ll see arguments

I’m not saying abandon your ambitions or stop caring about your life. I’m saying: care about your life more . But also remember that your neighbor’s life is on the same dot. The child born in a refugee camp. The whale singing in the deep. The last patch of rainforest. All of it, same pixel.

Carl Sagan, who convinced NASA to turn Voyager 1 around for that final portrait, wrote: “Look again at that dot. That’s here. That’s home. That’s us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives… There is perhaps no better demonstration of the folly of human conceits than this distant image of our tiny world.”