theodore sturgeon called upon us to honor quote, the main current with created you, and it was you whoagree greater things still, referencing those who bore you and the ones who bore them. akin back to the first wild creature was different because his heart leaped when he saw a star. our imperative to keep ourselves from blowing up our world is our obligation to our predecessors. those who invented writing and before that, language, and before that rational thought, the geniuses who took it slowly, step by step by step from creatures not so very far from our animal origins to something a little bit closer to our divine destiny. we must abolish nuclear weapons and keep them abolished forever, because that is the debt we owe it to jane addams and dorothy jane. to bolivar and bock, the gutenberg and galileo, the magellan and michelangelo, and caesar against us. it is our destined to slave to build the great pyramids, considered by their builders to be stairways to heaven, pointinq toward the infinite sky. it is our destiny to the men and women, our grandparents who painted this breathtaki