"We have one collective hope: the Earth
And yet, uncounted people remain hopeless — famine and calamity abound
Sufferers curl themselves into the arms of war
People kill and get killed in the name of someone else's concept of God

Do we admit that our thoughts and behaviors spring from a belief
that the world revolves around us?

Each fabricated conflict, self-murdering bomb
Vanished airplane, every fictionalized dictator
Biased or partisan, and wayward son
Are part of the curtains of society's racial, ethnic, religious, national, and cultural conflicts
And you find the human ego turning the knobs and pulling the levers

When I track the orbits of asteroids, comets, and planets
Each one a pirouetting dancer in a cosmic ballet
Choreographed by the forces of gravity
I see beyond the plight of humans
I see a universe ever-expanding
With its galaxies embedded within the ever-stretching four-dimensional fabric of space and time

However big our world is — our hearts, our minds, our outsize atlases —
The universe is even bigger

There are more stars in the universe than grains of sand on the world's beaches
More stars in the universe than seconds of time that have passed since Earth formed
More stars than words and sounds ever uttered by all humans who have ever lived

The day we cease the exploration of the cosmos
Is the day we threaten the continuing of our species
In that bleak world, arms-bearing, resource-hungry people and nations
Would be prone to act on their low-contracted prejudices
And would have seen the last gasp of human enlightenment

Until the rise of a visionary new culture
That once again embraces the cosmic perspective —
A perspective in which we are one
Fitting neither above nor below, but within."

- Neil deGrasse Tyson in an avenged sevenfold song from like 2016