Heroes Not Zombies

We can’t see it. Most of the time we are completely unaware of it. But just as these fish swim in the same water, we live in the same air. The same air, the same water, the same Earth.

Nation states can’t build borders for their citizens to live behind, separated from and unaffected by, the rest of the world. Borders have always been both invisible, temporary and impermeable.

Even within a single country, a single town or a single neighbourhood, we breathe the same air, drink the same water, eat food grown in the same soil. There is no separate air. There are no unconnected water cycles. There is just one Earth.

There are other, mostly invisible, environments which we share, which fashion our daily lives, and which work below our ordinary awareness – cultural, social, familial relationships which influence our moment to moment feelings, thoughts, choices and actions.

I think we often forget just how massively interconnected we are, just how much we affect, and are affected by, the lives of others.