I do not believe in, think about, or feel much about death, death is too far.
Much more painful and dangerous is the terrible power, factual and immediate, of the disconnection between everything.
As I was jogging around my neighboorhood, I discovered a fantastic building: one of those factories remodeled as artists studios, containing an upscale restaurant, galleries, companies. Some cool people in it.
There was a band of musicians preparing to work a piece.
I also found nearby a gym, and a pet/bird/fish store.
Happy should I be of those discoveries, yet instead they silently but deeply reminded me of not just the relative randomness and absurdity of things ("relative" since there are, after all, good reasons for the existence and location of those buildings and people) but that, once again and increasingly every day, we live Times of Separation.
Nothing invited anyone to wander and discover those buildings or create them or make them or support them and nothing but random and absurd human relations has anything to do with those buildings and people pass by not knowing what they are doing and what they should do and people feel without saying and unemployment rage sprawls and there is no connection.
I have just finished American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis (often speed-read the most horrid pages, always superfluous) and decided that this average book had the good idea to present just this, our disconnected Times.
I wonder if, if we adopt the idea of the Noosphere, before getting to the point where that Noosphere exists, mankind wouldn't go through episodes of such great disconnections.
As humans differentiate (soon, biologically) increasingly from each other, creating divides that will manifest to us more often than wars, in parrallel the need to find meaningful ways to connect might replace and supersede the need for peace.
2 comments:
The disconnection between people and their built, economic and social environment is indeed a fascinating subject. I often encounter the suffering caused by such disconnection but also frequently find small emerging examples of the empowerment, joy and equanimity people find when connected here or there. I totally agree that reestablishing human connections in the face of difference but i think actually that this is the very foundations of creating peace.
Thank you Imogen! Yes it's a foundation for peace. What I was thinking of is, peace is the basis, but not enough, and human connection comes after that. I hope peace and war becomes a solved issue one day, so we can focus on higher layers of truth. It's like when you go see a doctor and they disregard you because you're not entirely broken and bleeding, and yet you do suffer(I hate when doctors do that!) and wish doctors could also focus on the less obvious medical issues. In a way, humanity hasn't progress: medicine still focus on healing and avoiding critical issues, countries focus on peace vs. war..etc. You and me are healthy and live in a civilized and spoiled world.
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