My wife and I were in Paris one year when France won the rugby world cup and we marched up the Champs Elysees towards the Arche de Triomphe with thousands of Parisians shouting out “Viva la France” to groups of celebrants carrying their flag.
It was at that point that I knew I couldn’t be a French citizen, that I was really and ultimately an outsider, but I also realized I wanted to escape the madness created by the extremists who had gripped America. I am reluctant to give up baseball and Sirius Radio to move overseas and don’t want to give up my American citizenship because of the actions of a small but vocal minority of fringe people but still yearn for a higher calling.
Then the answer came to me in the form of the greatest scientist in human history, Albert Einstein. He did not consider himself a citizen of any country but rather a citizen of the world.
And that is when I realized that if we all became citizens of the world we could put a stop to the extremists who have gripped individual countries including America today. As world citizens we will overcome those that stand in the way of progress and who are agents of greed and war. We will all together in a song of peace endure all that threatens us. So thank you Albert Einstein for E = mc2 but also thank you for a new higher form of citizenship.