Logical viewpoint would point to an almost infinite space that
we call the Universe on or in which we find our Blue Planet
floating away as it goes around its axis every day while
orbiting the Sun as it spins around. The immediate space in
which we find the globe rotating is the Solar System which is
formed around the gravitational and electromagnetic force region
to which there are planets, to which the Earth is one, that
orbit the sun. At the furthest corner of this tiny space
inhabits a dwarf planet, Pluto, which is about 5, 913,520,000 km
away!
Looking beyond this space, let's give her a human name: call her
Sunnara, this new country of humanity, fondly lighted, heated
and cradled by the burning Sun, we find a much wider and bigger
space that we call the Milky Way which houses our home Sunnara,
in a vast expanse of multi dimensional space spectacularly
bewildered by more than 200 billions (estimates range between
200 and 400 billions stars!) stars that are gigantic in sizes
among which the Sun is just a tiny dwarf star! Sunnara lies at
the peripheral end of the galaxy, which is approximately 28,000
light years from the centre of the Galaxy!
The diameter of Milky Way Galaxy is 100,000 light years or there
about! We are not writing about the Milky Way as Astronomers
would write, therefore, leave the science bit of our exploration
and try to enter another domain of discussion which we have been
calling as Cosmography.
Suffice to say that Milky Way is a tiny dot in terms of what
other Galaxies, clusters of them are thriving and living out
there, about which we have minuscule knowledge and
understanding, let alone those galaxies, we do not know much
about our own Galaxy Milky Way, and to be frank, our system, to
which we devote our whole life time, does not give much
importance to this at all and therefore, we do not see resources
going into the studies of sciences, mathematics and geo-physics
that we need to develop our knowledge, understanding and to go
with it, make the necessary technological advances! No, we are
busy doing lot of other things that are our utter preoccupation.
So here we are faced with a space that spreads across the void
indefinitum, 100,000 light years! This distance is almost
impossible for our finite human minds to actually grasp. We can
gather a slight degree of vague empathy as to the vastness of
the distance just to acquire enough sense to create a sense of
the reality.
Now we invite you to zoom in so that we could locate our home,
Sunnara in this vast entity of space and objects going through
three-directional spinning round and we locate a dot. If we
magnify the space many times over we could now see little dots
in vast darkness where we find at the centre this almost eternal
lamp burning away: the Sun and the little planets that have
little moons and things are working perfectly well.
And here we see our Blue Planet and here now we have got our
goings on that do not at all take anything else into
consideration about the Universe! Forget about the Universe or
Milky Way or even Sunnara we do not even think about the Earth
as one little entity. We are so many nations, so many
nationalities, so many states and governments, so many maps and
mental traps of multi faceted identities that we are not one in
our human identity. We human beings are all and everything but a
nation of humanity or a humanion. We are fragmented into pseudo
boxes that are made of illusory borders and political illusions!
On this scale of things one can really see things in perspective
and is forced to question the vary foundation of our system of
governance, structures of our functionality and the fallacy of
our philosophical ideas and impotence of our political and
cultural mechanics and foundation of our political morality.
We have nations, states, governments and bodies in layers
comprising of neighbourhoods, localities, provincials, regional,
national, supranational, multinational and international that
brings us back to the question: where is the humanity in it?
Where is the nation that should occupy, lead, manage, develop,
nurture and foster this country of Sunnara where humanity
practices its common purpose that offers them fair and equal
opportunities to live and work for a meaning of their living?
Where is the state for this landscape that is not a flat map?
Where is the government for the management and leadership of
this space and this nation that is yet to be prepared and shaped
up to be ready to take up new challenges? Where are the
political, social, cultural, philosophical and moral values and
most importantly, where is the philosophy on which everything
should be based upon!
We do not even have a body that represents and can claim
legitimately to be the government of this globe! No one is
bothered about the lack of even the idea that the globe needs a
government for the nation of humanity and for the country that
Sunnara is.
The United Nations is the closest entity that could be made into
such a body only if we the broken-to-pieces-humanity come
together to realise that it is time we begin to change the way
we think and identify ourselves. The United Nations ought to be
reshaped and remade on a totally different philosophy and
structure where these village governments do not get to become
members but each individual member of the humanion is a member
of this body and this body becomes the government of not only
for the Globe but also for Sunnara and lead humanity to the
process of resolving grievances and issues that have been left
unresolved between so called nations on earth. In this process
we could resolve these issues that are causing hatred to
germinate and grow like wild bush fires and this resolution can
only be done by reliving, retelling, re-examining, analysing and
finally understanding so that these issues could be put away
sealed as forgiven, forgotten and therefore, resolved and we all
are now ready to be members of this new nation of humanity. No
hatred, no resentment, no rivalry, no jealousy, no animosity, no
competition but a common sense and purpose. For finding some
guidance and wisdom for this, one ought to think of South
African experiences of truth and reconciliation which should
take place between and among all nations.
When Sheraton Hotel is spending a lot of money in designing
their first Lunar Sheraton, Richard Branson's Virgin Space
Holiday Programme is on its way to becom a reality and Russia in
order to generate cash to support its space programme and
research offering space tourism flights to the ultra rich; is it
not about time, we wonder what are the laws and systems that
would regulate and support this expansion into space! How are
these expansions going to impact on our lives, and if not
regulated, how these might open up catastrophes in cosmic scale
from which nothing could save us!
It is not in too distant a time in the future, probably few
decades ahead, there would be space tourism starting from the
moon and spreading to other planets. There would be lunar camps
and facilities where students would go and live, study and
research. There would be time when the whole Sunnara is going to
be explored the way people went about learning and knowing more
about the Earth in the recent past centuries! These activities
would generate pollution and a whole lot of other political,
social, cultural, scientific and moral issues that we do not
have the systems, mechanisms, apparatus, laws and law
enforcement bodies and a philosophical framework that could
prepare us to deal with. People are selling space on the moon
for gift, issuing gift vouchers! They are selling space on the
Mars, too! How these are going to create problems in future in
terms of claiming ownerships on these so called purchases! This
might sound like joke today but these could produce serious
difficulties and we do not have mechanism to deal with any such
things. These are no longer science fiction issues! The
countries of the world that have the scientific knowledge,
explorative experiences and most importantly, the required
technological abilities as well as political power and
structures in addition to will and determination to go out there
and declare the supremacy first and therefore, would end up like
the land lords of the universe keeping the whole of humankind
under their control and manipulative prowess unless we are now
able to do something about it so as to be able to avoid that.
In order to take up the challenges that humanity is forced up to
accept and act upon, we first of all need to become one: "we the
people" must now be woken up and say: "We the Humanity is One"
and if we need to call it a nationality, call it humanion, the
nation of humanity that occupies this planet and that our planet
is part of our country Sunnara.
Our country can no longer be UK or America, or South Africa or
India, Japan or Egypt. These are our little villages from where
we venture out into this new country.
Under the current atmosphere and system of economics and
governance we are drowned in hatred, resentment, wars and
conflicts, bloodshed, famines, droughts, lack of vital and
fundamental necessities and amenities and the absolute supreme
reign of lack of education and awareness as well poverty while
another part of the world is living in utter excess and wasting
and abusing resources. All these are feeding more hatred that is
supported by bigotry, prejudices, made up "knowledge" , lies,
myths against other nations and the history of colonisation, of
wars, of massacres, of exploitation, of brutality, of slavery,
of imposition, of abuse of power, of impacts of corruption and
collusion, of a whole range of other issues that do not help but
reinforce the divide and continual increase of more lethal
hatred. Humanity ought to begin the process of its own Truth and
Reconciliation Process so that it "purifies" itself of all the
blood and destruction, of all the death and pain, of all the
suffering and agony, it caused to its own members (nation to
nation, group to group, tribe to tribe, religion to religion,
party to party, region to region, this to that and so on) and in
this process the so called nations get buried and at the funeral
of these boxes of identities a new nation of humanity, a
humanion comes out to take up its role to develop this new
country and its nation with all that they need to prepare them
to take up the challenges that previous humanity could not even
imagine or
understand.