How to call It?

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We are habituated to filling this hollowness of the absence and separation with everything and anything and, in fact, our constant dependency on external nourishment, which must be procured and prepared, is a considerable and actually welcome part of this filling; but even the tensions and the worries and the dreads and the unsatisfied desires and wants are plugging materials. The large omnivorous cities of our present day have formatted an important proportion of us members of the species and the silhouette and posture of the driver seated in its closed-up vehicle halted in a traffic jam is identical from one continent to another, as is the one of the passer-by bent forward to scrutinize the screen of its mobile phone.

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Because, you understand, the question is serious: if for the world to exist as it is, it has to be really separate, and if being really separate is the cause of all misery, then...

With the help of these new tools and technologies that have invaded even the very air of the earth and are meant, or supposedly intended to reduce the distances and enrich every individual with almost infinite possibilities of access and communication, can we affirm that we are less separated from

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