Out of the Silent Planet
A main theme I saw throughout this book was the idea of travel and how it broadens one's mind. It is so easy to get stuck in the constraints of the culture around you and forget that there are other ways of being and living. The amazing thing about travel is that you encounter, literally, whole new worlds. You learn things you can't even imagine that you could learn. People don't know what they don't know and it is only through knowledge that you can learn what it is you don't know. Exploring is the gateway to freeing the mind from society's constructs. Traveling, exploring, and learning all lead to discovery. It is discovery that humans live off of. It seems to be a high that we cannot ever get enough of. We consume more and more knowledge but the more knowledge we get only wets our appetites for more.
In the first of the three novels in the Space Trilogy, we see Ransom on this voyage of discovery and knowledge. He becomes a tourist in a way he never thought possible as he travels to a whole new world. It is not only when Ransom gets to the other planet that his discovery begins but it is the actual journey from one planet to another that changes his perception and view on life and knowledge.
I found it interesting, as I'm learning the same in other courses, the way one's perceptions change over time. The way you view people and the world, and even yourself, changes slowly every day. You never look at something the way you did before because of this constant change. When you go back over journals of your youth, to middle, age to old, one can see that it was many "different" people writing that journal. People don't stay the same, that is the beauty of time. Time and experience gives one the opportunity of growth and new perspective. It is only from new perspective can one grow and learn.
In the first of the three novels in the Space Trilogy, we see Ransom on this voyage of discovery and knowledge. He becomes a tourist in a way he never thought possible as he travels to a whole new world. It is not only when Ransom gets to the other planet that his discovery begins but it is the actual journey from one planet to another that changes his perception and view on life and knowledge.
I found it interesting, as I'm learning the same in other courses, the way one's perceptions change over time. The way you view people and the world, and even yourself, changes slowly every day. You never look at something the way you did before because of this constant change. When you go back over journals of your youth, to middle, age to old, one can see that it was many "different" people writing that journal. People don't stay the same, that is the beauty of time. Time and experience gives one the opportunity of growth and new perspective. It is only from new perspective can one grow and learn.
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