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The Pale Blue Dot monologue never once fails to make me reflect on our place as a species in the universe. The grandness of space makes our very existence seem inconsequential. Whether our planet, let alone our species and its individual members, continue to exist and thrive would seem a mere pittance in loss or gain when taken in context of the universe at large.
In this way the picture and accompanying realization are utterly humbling. We are so small then what does it matter? However, perhaps paradoxically, the realization of our smallness is also liberating and exciting. In the same way that magic and wonder in the world give way to jaded listlessness as we grow up, I can't help but feel as if on a wider scale, our technocentric society may have lost its notion of "awe" for things that are mysterious and vast.
In the humbling of our civilization so plainly put forth by this image is a sense of restored anonymity and thus, liberation which gives me the desire to never stop searching for those deep truths which help us find our place in the vastness of it all.
