The story of humanity 1

The time has come for us to rise above difference and start telling a story about the future of us: the human species. We have a great common history, but we're too defensive and fearful to see similarity with our competitors and enemies; the others, the strangers, the foreign and obscure. This belongs in our Grand Narrative:

(From 'Possibilities - for Over One Hundredfold more Spiritual Information. The Humble Approach in Theology and Science' by Sir John Templeton.)

"We stand on the shore facing a vast, uncertain ocean of reality
from which future knowledge will be obtained. How large is this
ocean? How far might its exploration take those who will live in the fu-
ture and for whom what we know now may seem quaint? Clearly it is
a vista that should humble us, in a similar way as it did even for the
great scientist Sir Isaac Newton. Near the end of his remarkable life
(1642–1727) of extraordinary scientific accomplishment, he wrote that
to himself he had seemed only “like a boy, playing on the sea-shore,
and diverting myself, in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a
prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undis-
covered before me.”