Haven't We Met?

I was reading something where I thought the author was waxing lyrical.  It was pretty, even if I did not agree with all of it.  Yet there was one sentence I read I thought was really good.  “The new frontier lies not beyond the planets but within each one of us.”
It is said there is nothing new under the sun.  So often what is seen to be new is the old recycled.  There is fashion that is again in vogue.  I see it for sale in the shops.  Yet 60 years ago I saw it for sale in the shops too. So often it seems that new means new to me rather than a new idea.
There seems to be an aspiration or a dream at the moment of populating other planets.  I am all for dreams and stretching beyond current limits.  Yet I do not see things currently promoted, as changing things for the better.  That is because I see our difficulties as the old made new again.  To me the frontier has always been within each of us.  Mankind could populate the furthest planet, yet the problem remains with in rather than without.
Again I am all for solving problems without, but as long as the problem remains within, the problem remains.  As Willa Cather said, “the history of every country begins in the heart of a man or woman.”
Mankind faces huge problems.  So much of history is to me the solving of one problem and the going on to the next.  The old new again.  Why I personally have a heightened concern is I believe mankind has, for the first time, the ability to wipe himself out.
To me the problem has always been personal.  Systems of government have come and gone, kingdoms have risen and fallen, and potential answers have been tried and discredited.  To me the human condition is sick and so many solutions have treated the symptoms rather than the cause.
As the Italian proverb says, “once the game is over, the King and the pawn go back into the same box.”  I can have a huge influence or a minimal one, yet, the solution for King and pawn alike lies in a change of heart rather than a change of circumstance.  The old made new again.