INSTEAD WE WATCH TELEVISION

“Ralph Waldo Emerson once asked what we would do if the stars only came out once every thousand years. 

No one would sleep that night, of course. 

The world would create new religions overnight. 

We would be ecstatic, delirious, made rapturous by the glory of whatever is beyond us. 

Instead, the stars come out every night and we watch television.” 

Paul Hawkens

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