¶ Spaceship Earth
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Spaceship Earth:
"Vehicle moving at 60,000 miles an hour through the heavens and you’re aboard as a passenger. I’m sorry but your objection is invalid.
So decreed Justice Fuller. I tried a different angle having, apparently, failed to make myself understood: “There’s an organization just formed in San Francisco called Living Creatures Associates. It’s a press agency claiming to represent other species-- whales, garter snakes, foxes-- represent them publicly on their own terms, with a right to exist on this spaceship, then, in the same way as I do. With some rights that conflict, perhaps, with those of men.”
“Did the foxes invite them? Did the daisies elect them?.. I have no objection to other people’s doing what they do but nothing could be more remote from me,” says Fuller. “I call this a do-gooder organization, idealistic and so forth. And their effectiveness approximately zero… I think it is a very nice manifest of consciousness of man. He’s beginning to think about things.”
“The idea is that… we must accept the rights of other beings.”
¶ Citations
- Rasa Gustaitis, WHOLLY ROUND (HR&W, NY), p.159, Feb’73
