We are extremely limited animals.
In space, we cannot reach far distances. We cannot communicate with noise or gesture over big spaces. We do not have migration seasons, we are local animals. We organize in small groups, families, like lions do.
The media that we created are like longer arms, but our hearth cannot pump enough blood in order for them to work. In other words, we extended over spaces that we cannot reach or control. To a social network that our brain cannot handle. We scatter our attention over a multitude of issues that are not ours. But they become ours either in the very moment that we know about it, or when they affect our lives concretely.
We need petrol.
We need to avoid radiations in order to survive.
And it probably goes much deeper than that, but we are not aware of it.
We feel responsible for everything that the media show to us, things that are happening in other places. Libia, Japan, Ivory Coast. We created needs and responsibilities that we cannot handle. We feel these things for a little while, we fight symbolically for their causes, and then they disappear from our thoughts because we do not reach them. That is a tragedy in itself.
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