How to call It?

What to do with this time that is yet “free”?

Some of us have gone in search of a reality more solid, durable and reliable, better inhabited and lived in. But for most of us, it is a matter of mending or remedying to this void, this lack, this absence, this boredom – of filling this fearsome maw.

How to bring in, or find, some presence within this absence or, way behind or at the bottom of this primary drab and fallow yet insatiable existence?

In order to alleviate this hollowness and accord it sense and movement, human cultures and religions have elaborated various rites and rituals, which are as many invocations – but of what?

Of denser realities, better populated, better animated, more fulfilling?

The need to be distracted, absorbed, captivated, engrossed, by some activity or spectacle, some relationship or event, to be carried away and forget oneself in some intensity of sensorial, emotional or intellectual experience, the need to be momentarily released from one’s limitations, lacks and insufficiencies through a different identification, even just for a few hours – this need is at the origin of all our decadences. And it is this same need to plug and fill the emptiness of the absence that, in recent times, has been increasingly exploited by the predators of this worldwide technological society by selling to each human being a practically permanent access to virtual

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