The Ecology of Media: we are not the divine

The Telescope.

Galileo, deemed the Father of Telescopes, is given most of the credit towards the invention of the telescope (although ideas and more primitive inventions were created by many others. With the telescope Galileo was able to see past the naked eye, past the clouds, past the blue sky, past the philosopher's writings, and past the heavens. Literally, the telescope changed the way we look at the world.

The order of the cosmos is wrong; the Earth is not the center of the universe. The telescope opened our eyes up to a universe that made us humans not so divine. The telescope has reduced Earth to a mere planet among thousands of other planets part of a galaxy, which is only one of thousands of other galaxies that make up the universe. I don't mean to take away from anything extraordinary about the existence of Earth and its inhabitants, Earth is still unique and so far we have not met a match to our life forms. However, as the telescope was originally satisfy our natural hunger for knowledge, to turn the unknown into the known. We wanted to know what was out there. What is our place in the universe? Still to this day we are building up answers to the questions to ultimately explain life. The newest multi-million dollar project, the James Webb Space Telescope, explain "the Big Bang" and its connection with the creation of our galaxy (the Milk Way).

The telescope allows us to understand the surrounding universe, which we stand as a speck of a speck of a speck of a speck of a speck. The closer we get to answering this seemingly unanswerable question, the closer we will get to finding out that the meaning of life is raw and unique to every individual. We will be able to strip away all the fake beliefs that control our lives and the decisions we make.