New Frontier

"When Alexander saw the breadth of his domain, he wept, for there were no more worlds to conquer." We have expanded civilization, conquered the New World, and then flattened the Earth back out to achieve an unimaginable level of interconnectedness. We have figured out how to outrun the collapse of the tower of Babel, how to work together to accomplish great feats of cooperation (though not necessarily how best to mete out the gains for such feats).

In a time when the New Frontier isn't a physical location, when political boundaries are overscored by corporate agendas, when the constructs of civilizations are advancing not only faster but faster than many of us can keep up, what looms is a Human Revolution, an Internal Revolution. It's like the New Year's resolution or the fad diet that we keep telling ourselves we'll get around to. And maybe it's just human nature, but who's to say that it's not just the old human nature that needs to move aside to make room for the new? Perhaps it's finally time that we stop focusing on how to be better people and start learning how to be better persons.