Our common frontier

When I was thinking about starting this blog, I was thinking of calling it "Our crisis of survival" but I changed my mind. What I want to do in this blog is stand back from the general flow of the march of our society towards whatever we are headed for depending on the choices we make as a society and try to figure out, and suggest to others, what kinds of questions we should be asking ourselves that will help determine where we end up further down the road of whatever history still lies before us.
I should say a little about myself, so readers will have some idea of the kind of places in the mind and heart from which I have come although I hope to say things here and suggest things that you will not find anywhere else, or at least not on most other blogs. I am a member of the Democratic Party, and I consider myself a liberal, a liberal on economic issues and a liberal on social issues. I have been a political and environmental activist much of my life.
I decided to call this blog:

"All our tomorrows"

because I see all of our tomorrows as Americans as linked together in many different ways. Who we choose as our next President will help determine what kind of an individual future each and every one of us has as well as our common future that we will all share. And within the Democratic Party, who we choose as our nominee for President will also help determine our common and individual futures.
I also believe that all of our tomorrows for all of us humans walking around on the planet are also linked together, regardless of the nation-state in which we were born. We are all citizens of the world we all share in common, whether or not we are aware of it or not, or think about it much, or not.
The future for all of us humans is our common frontier. By speaking and thinking of it as a frontier, I mean that there is a kind of boundary, or edge between us and our future that recedes as we move towards it. And as we peer into that future, what we find is mostly a kind of inky blackness. The legacy of ideas, beliefs, and institutions we have all inherited from the past casts some light into that blackness, but not much, not nearly as much as we need.
One of the things I hope to do on this blog is explore some of the many meanings of specifically American individuality and American citizenship as it relates to our common future as Americans and our common future as citizens of the world.
We are now engaged in the contests for the nominations for President of the two major political parties, the Democratic and the Republican, and we are probably very close to determining who those people will be. On what basis should we be choosing who those nominees should be? This will be a subject for another entry. I may not be able to make daily entries, at first, but I will try to make them as frequently as possible. I hope whoever reads these words finds the promise of a fresh perspective.

Earth citizen