This choice: How many side paths can one take? • Go Back... Side Paths, The Road Less travelled, detours, Two sides, Enemies and Friends, all of these are the prime elements in drama. As you may wonder where your story (life) may take you, the side paths likely will end up being the most interesting.
In the Babylon 5 Season Four episode, The Longest Night, the struggle between the First Ones (Shadows and Vorlons) and the younger races (Earth and the non-aligned worlds) is delineated by the agreement that the First Ones will leave.
This is the ultimate declaration of independence. It is both a culmination of showing how different ideologies, attitudes, energies grow up side-by-side, but not necessarily to support nor antagonize against one another.
Later, Citizen G'Kar of the Narn writes (in episode, The Paragon of the Animals)
The Preamble of the Declaration of Principles for the Interstellar Alliance (Babylon 5)
In a short delivery of a "Peace message" at the 2016 World Peace Meditation gathering at my center in Covina, CA I prefaced my reading of G'Kar's message with a few words to put the Babylon 5 show and it's ideology in context (why it was perfect in a talk about peace). I stated that a very famous TV show called Star Trek had been created fifty years ago by a Naval and L.A.P.D. veteran, in a time when we were learning about ourselves through civil rights demonstrations, war, women's equality, and he allowed his audience to further learn about the human experience through weekly encounters with aliens, who often times were like us, but many times were truly alien yet fascinating.
I pointed out that Babylon 5 came to TV in the early Nineties, twenty-five years after the first episode of Star Trek, but that it accomplished showing us how we as human really might exist off-world, and just how difficult getting along could be.
This is the text of G'Kar's declaration:
The universe speaks in many languages, but only one voice.
The language is not Narn, or Human, or Centauri, or Gaim or Minbari
It speaks in the language of hope
It speaks in the language of trust
It speaks in the language of strength and the language of compassion
It is the language of the heart and the language of the soul.
But always it is the same voice
It is the voice of our ancestors, speaking through us,
And the voice of our inheritors, waiting to be born
It is the small, still voice that says
We are one
No matter the blood
No matter the skin
No matter the world
No matter the star:
We are one
No matter the pain
No matter the darkness
No matter the loss
No matter the fear
We are one
Here, gathered together in common cause, we agree to recognize this
singular truth and this singular rule:
That we must be kind to one another
Because each voice enriches us and ennobles us and each voice lost
diminishes us.
We are the voice of the Universe, the soul of creation, the fire
that will light the way to a better future.
We are one.
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