A next step

How to breathe?

Nonetheless there is erosion, there has been a process of intensive wearing out, of diligent and continuous erosion during these last decades of digital cultivation, through which a more and more major part of humankind has found itself gradually dumbed down, dimmed and dulled and diminished, possessed, addicted and dissociated from the lived here and now. By the prolific, invasive magic of computing science and technology, free access to all knowledge along with all possible virtual satiation and gratification have been provided to its members. A broad and comprehensive leveling has ensued, by which all knowledge is of equal worth and the highest scientific or ethical stances are vigorously countered, negated or dismembered, until every information of every sort has equal bearing and cynicism, doubt and gullibility share in the rite of welcome at the threshold of our personal habitations.

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The very exercising of logic, this exercise which every individual is meant to practice innumerable times in number less occasions in one’s existence, is now put to the test; it is now being asked, even demanded, of each individual, to renounce it for the sake of en emergency policy which implicates all members of society at once and decrees the measures and regulations each and all must now observe and respect and follow scrupulously for as long as the “crisis” will last. However the “authorities” cannot possibly sequester the whole of humanity nor force it to obey at every instant and on every point, even equipped as

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