(It was not the best day. Sometimes I lose my
nerves.)
I guess I am not changing anything. Neither for
the better, nor for the worse. The brain was made for adaptation. No matter
where we end, well-being level and satisfaction with life will stabilize over
time.
Anti-utopias tell us about the weirdo, that
unhappy individual in an almost perfect world. 1984, A brave new world (Un mundo feliz, in its Spanish translation…),
Black mirror, Wall-e … People will
be happy and will remain satisfied whatever the conditions of their futile
existence. Only the individual who does not know suffers. He who does not know how
to avoid the responsibility of humankind; how to stop thinking about the
destiny of our specie; how to forget the anxiety of death suffers, silently or
loudly, but suffers.
1984, simply a solitary nostalgic of
thoughts and vocabulary. Orwell wanted to tittle the work “The last man in Europe”. 1984
was less aggressive, I guess. A brave new
world, such a couple of misfits. Even more, when they offer to be expelled
one of them does not want to leave his perfect society. Nothing matters,
nothing.
Black Mirror. Black
mirror. A guy
threatening with committing suicide with the screen of his jail, on a screen.
Meanwhile people continue riding towards nothingness. Nothing happens, and that
is what happens. The system does not introduce the glass in our throats because
we are the system. We cannot kill ourselves; we are just adapting to live with
the pressure of being reduced to vacuity. The bravery attempt of a weirdo
change nothing. Because that is what they are going to change. Nothing.
[By the way, reality will surpass fiction.
Value judgments aside.]
Wall-e. A happy ending story for kids to
let them preserve the hopes for a couple of years more. Nothing further from
the reality. However, it has a good point. When humankind loose the control, technology
with a good purpose will be our only salvation. Not the designer, but the
device. Id est, what is written, not the writer. Designers die. Designers with
their calm conscience just hope that when they will be discover it will not be
already too late. Once written I just can say:
Good luck.
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