“I have never thought about the world as a place with no boundaries. Never thought of it as a place where anything can come from anywhere.”
Zuckerman’s idea is very relevant to the book and our lives. I too, usually imagine our world as a world with boundaries. This makes me think back and realize that there once was a time when there were no boundaries. There was a time when people and animals roamed the Earth. Now a days everything seems to be just so. This country is located here, and this country is over there… People have been fighting over land… Earth is such a different place. It is important to realize how Earth has changed to prepare for the future. We must take action so that not all land will be “touched” by mankind, meaning no modernization, settlements, etc. It would be a shame to completely lose all the natural beauty of Earth. I think this idea of boundaries will come up again and again and be a big theme in the book.
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This is a *very* interesting idea Falcon. It's ironic, in a way-- often people talk about Globalization creating a world without boundaries, because people and ideas can travel so easily from place to place. But at the same time, there are definitely a lot more borders than there once were-- as you say, when we 'roamed' the earth.
ReplyDeleteHere's a question for you-- do you think there are more boundaries now, for your generation, than there were for your grandparents generation? Or fewer...?