In ancient times, this exercise was only theoretical the highest anyone could get was the top of a mountain or a building a few stories tall. But as technology has progressed, humans have been able to actually take that bird’s-eye view and greater.
Edgar Mitchell, an astronaut, was one of the first people to see the earth from outer space. As he later recounted:
“In outer space you develop an instant global consciousness, a people orientation, an intense dissatisfaction with the state of the world, and a compulsion to do something about it. From out there on the moon, international politics look so petty. You want to grab a politician by the scruff of the neck and drag him a quarter of a million miles out and say, ‘Look at that, you son of a bitch.’”
Many a problem can be solved with the perspective of Plato’s view. Use it.
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