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The Whole Earth
Oct. 24th, 2007 05:31 pm"One afternoon, probably in March of 1966, dropping a little bit of LSD, I went up onto the roof and sat shivering in a blanket sort of thinking and looking.... And so I'm watching the buildings, looking out at San Francisco, thinking of Buckminster Fuller's notion that people think of the earth's resources as unlimited because they think of the earth as flat. I'm looking at San Francisco from 300 feet and 200 micrograms up and thinking that I can see from here that the earth is curved. I had the idea that that higher you go the more you can see earth as round.
There were no public photographs of the whole earth at that time, despite the fact that we were in the space program for about ten years. I started scheming within the trip. How can I make this photograph happen? Because I have now persuaded myself that it will change everything if we have this photograph looking at the earth from space."
-- Stewart Brand, quoted in From Counterculture to Cyberculture, by Fred Turner
Bill Moyers: So you suggest that from this begins the new myth of our time?
Joseph Campbell: Yes, this is the ground of what the myth is to be. It's already here: the eye of reason, not of my nationality; the eye of reason, not of my religious community; the eye of reason, not of my linguistic community. Do you see? And this would be the philosophy for the planet, not for this group, that group, or the other group.
When you see the earth from the moon, you don't see any divisions there of nations or states. This might be the symbol, really, for the new mythology to come. That is the country we are going to be celebrating. And those are the people that we are at one with.
-- from The Power of Myth
Sarah Jane: I never thought I would lay eyes on a sight like this again.
Maria: It's incredible. Even after everything I've seen, I never thought I'd see this.
Sarah Jane: Maybe if everybody could see the earth from up here, they might appreciate it more.
-- from Sarah Jane Adventures, "Warriors of Kudlak, part02"
There were no public photographs of the whole earth at that time, despite the fact that we were in the space program for about ten years. I started scheming within the trip. How can I make this photograph happen? Because I have now persuaded myself that it will change everything if we have this photograph looking at the earth from space."
-- Stewart Brand, quoted in From Counterculture to Cyberculture, by Fred Turner
Bill Moyers: So you suggest that from this begins the new myth of our time?
Joseph Campbell: Yes, this is the ground of what the myth is to be. It's already here: the eye of reason, not of my nationality; the eye of reason, not of my religious community; the eye of reason, not of my linguistic community. Do you see? And this would be the philosophy for the planet, not for this group, that group, or the other group.
When you see the earth from the moon, you don't see any divisions there of nations or states. This might be the symbol, really, for the new mythology to come. That is the country we are going to be celebrating. And those are the people that we are at one with.
-- from The Power of Myth
Sarah Jane: I never thought I would lay eyes on a sight like this again.
Maria: It's incredible. Even after everything I've seen, I never thought I'd see this.
Sarah Jane: Maybe if everybody could see the earth from up here, they might appreciate it more.
-- from Sarah Jane Adventures, "Warriors of Kudlak, part02"
