March 11, 2026
This week marks 150 years since the first words were spoken over a telephone. Since that time, with invention after invention, we have made communicating between different parts of the world even easier. Today, it is so easy to share memes, messages, songs, pictures, and videos with complete strangers from the farthest reaches of our planet.
We can see that their hopes, dreams, and wants are similar to ours. We notice that some in their society are just as easily lead astray by political leaders and religious dogma as members of our own family. We can see in them the joy they feel when their sports teams win, and the grief that they suffer when their children die before their time.
And yet, despite all of this, we still have way too many people who don't allow themselves to mourn deeply when a school full of young children is blown up by our missiles, too many people who don't feel a sense of loss when an unarmed ship full of people who just want to defend their country and community is sent to the bottom of the ocean.
Day after day we see horrors happening to people all around the world who are just like us. We have to take advantage of the connections that have been created by modern communications to express our outrage and our sense of loss as a global community. The end goal of modern technology should not be to kill others more efficiently than ever before, but to realize that we must find a way to stop the killing once and for all.
