Its a very small pale blue dot indeed.

Wow, I watched the event live this weekend. Amazingly, I had had no idea what it was or that it was even happening at all until Saturday night when I attended a group screening of the broadcast. I was absolutely blown away. What an incredible idea.

I am always a little sceptical of such ideas as, usually, this kind of initiative has too direct an approach, perhaps overlooking the human element to problems, or isolating problems from their contexts, which does little to evoke empathy and to develop true compassion. This project surpassed that, highlighting the fact that suffering (or indeed happiness) may be experienced in the same universal way, even if the stimuli for the emotion is different. The process of empathising with another being on the other side of the world becomes infinitely easier when you can find commonality in emotion rather than in circumstance.

I think another success of Pangea Day (some may disagree with me) is that I think it managed to tread carefully and shrewdly the line of globalising homogenisation, which is a hazard to diversity.

I was utterly inspired, both creatively and to move to actively promote compassion and awareness of the diversity that exists on this pale blue dot.

Its such a pity it wasn’t better publicised.

Im going to get a few of my japanese friends together to try and watch the event. There are some venues up north in Japan closer to Tokyo but none in the south so we are trying to get something together

Here is another good video to check out.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=fZWIZX_8ub8

Its called Dear Mandela