The Universe

Here we are now in Chapter 5, in which the main topic is the Universe. In this Chapter Savater talks about the Universe, his perspectives about it, as well as the way he thinks of it. He also asks himself 3 major questions .

So Savater talks about how we “live” in different worlds, first of all there’s this world called our family, friends, known places, etcetera. Then he talks about the next step, which is like the cultural and social place I live in. He then talks about the subsequent places, in other words, he goes from smallest to biggest until he reaches outer space. Savater basically talks about how we live in mini-worlds.

He then makes a statement to which I totally agree, in Page 73 he states “By the way, what is most noteworthy in this series of worlds is that those most vitally important to me are precisely the smallest and narrowest”.

I agree with this statement because for me and I think, for many of us, this is a truth . Many of us care only about what happens on our world, it could be in our school, home or with friends. Some care more or less of what happens on their city or country, but almost none of us care about what happens in other countries or in the outer world, even though those decisions can affect our lives.

For example nowadays some countries are testing nuclear weapons, I really don’t care because it isn’t happening in my country nor near of it, and I think many of the people whom I’m related don’t even know what’s happening. But I think that we should really care because those decisions or actions can really hurt us in a future. So in resume I think that we should really care of everything, even though it doesn’t really affect us directly, we should care of ourselves and others.