Politics According To Krauthammer
I just finished Charles Krauthammer's last book, "Things That Matter." It is so brillian that I literally found over 100 topics to discuss in this forum. But I won't. At the very start of the book he makes the point that no matter how much effort he puts into writing about science,medicine, art, poetry,architecture, chess, space, sports, numbers, in the end they must "bow to the sovereignty of politics."In trying to move the spectre of politics off the table he got into the Voyager probes and whose voice narrated but Kurt Waldheim, a former NAZI. It prompted me to ask the Gulch one simple but extremely profound question: What one thing would you send on Voyager 1 and/or 2? Krauthammer finally winds up saying what biologist and philosopher Lewis Thomas proposed as evidence of human achievement ;the Complete works of Bach.(Personally, I would have chosen Beethoven). So, am asking this forum, if you were allowed to send only one item on Voyager 1 or 2, what would it be? Remember you are representing all of earth from fauna to flora, from philosophy to nonsense, from math to quantum. Just one thing. Music? Science? words? go for it.
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His mind and writing talent are being missed not and will be missed by all who knew him either directly or indirectly through his wor.
I've thought of many things, books, movies, even a DVD of an orchestra playing Beethoven. But, perhaps a painting by Dan O'brien. A painting that shows the best of our architecture, our transportation, our pets, our dreams and our humanity.
We should not think whoever finds the Voyager is endowed by the same qualities/traits as we humans. That species, whatever it'll be is unlikely to be human and as such will honor totally different standards as we do in technology, arts, science, etc.
We should not anthropomorphize space.