“Oh, the humanity”

Self development is a wonderful thing when it involves consciousness-raising. It means we’re becoming more deeply aware of our surroundings. As we go through each developmental stage we can feel ourselves growing up. Predominantly it’s the ‘humanity’ we feel and that’s where the real hope lies for humans. We refer to ourselves, rather hypocritically, as ‘humanity’. When the Hindenburg airship burst into flames in 1937 the news commentator famously said what everyone was feeling, “Oh, the humanity”. It was as if on the in-breath people were shocked and on the out-breath expressed compassion for the loss of so much ‘humanity’. People understood what he meant, as if we were human embodiments of ‘humanity’.