Purity - Prologue. Prologue

Foreword
Some say there is beauty in everything. Yet, as I travel through life, I wonder if that's true. There is so much hurt in the world and so many things that could be more beautiful if we were not such a destructive race.

We gloat each day about how far we have come as a species and what we have achieved, but seriously, should alien life look down upon our fragile blue planet, I honestly think they would be disgusted at what we have become. It is a shameful and barbaric display when one human being will cut another one's head off because they don't believe in the same faith. It is disgraceful that as a planet, we spend $15bn dollars on fighting AIDS but $1.2tn on weapons to kill each other.

There will never be a utopian world on planet earth because too many of our 7.3bn neighbours do not have the imagination to reach out and realise that the past and the present is getting us nowhere. I believe we have not gone out to the stars yet because precisely due to the first two paragraphs of this forward.

Sometimes it takes just one person to make a huge difference to attitudes, and perhaps one day, it might well be that one person who can save the entire human species. The one person who stops and looks beyond the destruction, and while letting the rest of us get on killing each other and our planet, might eventually make contact with another life form who will need our help or offer us theirs.

So to all the Astronomers out there, to all the astrophysicists and biologists… in fact, to every scientist out there who is looking for new ways to branch out of our solar system or who are trying to make THIS world a better place, keep going and maybe one day, at the end of your chosen field you will find…

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