Meet David Spoey

To a quark a proton is a brother. To an proton an atom is a football field. To an atom a rock is the galaxy. To a bacterium living on a boiling ocean thermal vent, Ohio is cold. To an Eskimo living in an Igloo, Ohio is hot. The sun is big to Mercury but small the Milky Way. The Milky Way is big to an ant, but small to the entire universe. Earth is big to a human, but small to the sun. The moon is big to one of its craters but is small relative to the earth. The point of these mental exercises is to stress the relativity of scale and discrimination. As humans we consider the universe from our observing point of view, but we are perceptually limited by our spatial and temporal dimensions. Each scale of the universe is discriminated and described by humans as different, which is logically defensible from our POV, but misses the essence of the universe. The universe is a continual organism engulfing infinite other organisms. Humans are the only known organisms with the ability to conceptualize and symbolically delineate categories, which accounts for our presumptious throne of knowledge. Fact is, we don't even know why we are here, how the universe is organized so, what is the fundamental basis of reality, and how our consciousness arises from the same chemicals present in the ocean.

Individual reason is callous without social ethics, and social ethics is lame without individual reason. An individual's power should derive in his service to social ethics and progress rather than her ability to subjugate his surroundings.