The Cosmic Connection

In the essay “from the Cosmic Connection”, Carl Sagan briefly explained the development of mankind in our society from earliest history until now. Back then, people lived in the small communities which were called “tribal groups”. Each group only had around ten to twenty people. Over time, people got together and formed the larger groups due to the basic needs in agriculture and other activities. Nowadays, the groups expand to the nation-state where thousands of people live and work together. However, the separation between group and group still exists in the society. Carl Sagan recommends people to widen our view and look at all people along with other living organisms as a whole. In other word, all people and other living organisms are the
People usually view animals and other living organisms as toys, entertainment, or just things. For example, in Sea World, they have many shows which attract thousands of people every year. Everyone enjoys the show and enjoys the performances from the killer whales. However, most of them do not know the story behind the scenes. The documentary film “Blackfish” of Gabriela Cowbethwaite reflected the true story of those killer whales lived in Sea World San Diego. Tilikum, a “main character” in the film, was captured from the ocean in 1983 when he was a baby. From that moment until he died, he had to live in the small pool with the limited space for him to swim. The food was also limited due to his training. They forced him to perform every day and couple times a day. As time went on, his behavior and attitude totally changed. He became more aggressive to others and ended up killing his trainer. He had the collapsed dorsal fin as well as other killer whales in the pool which never happened to those who live in the nature. As we can see, people only know that they pay the money for those whales to entertain them without knowing the terrible truths behind. Nobody cares about those whales are slowly dying in the pool. In fact, this is exactly how people treat animals and other living organisms. In order to see them as same as humans, people need to sympathize with those living organisms. They have emotions; they can feel the pain and suffer from the pain as same as humans. Moreover, they are very important to the universe. They provide a lot of benefits to humans and nations. It is difficult to view those as mankind; however, they deserve to be treated like