Thoughts For a Count Down

The main idea of Thoughts for a Count Down is mainly about how humans feels around anything different. Humans tend to associate "different" with disgusting. Humans have a tendency to go through extraordinary measures to "de -sanitize" themselves to avoid catching "cooties." One of the major examples first mentioned involves the man on the moon. After returning, the choreographed behavior astronauts practice as to not,"fall on their knees and kiss the carrier deck," because that would result in contamination. It is amazing that humans know absolutely nothing about anything thats regarded as different. It can not be known because they,"Cannot be cultivated alone." The author's point about interconnection is very agreeable in that association must occur in order for a process to be carried out. Humans have this belief that they are superior beings. They don't realize that everything in life and nature is interconnected. It is this  belief that influences them to not care about anything that is supposedly different.