Being Only A Witness

Being only a witness to all the human suffering must be the worst disease of our age. Because that's what we do nowadays. We have access to the information, to the news about what's going on in almost every place in the world; however, as we cannot take it all in, as it is over-human to feel the pain of everybody, -that's a weight not even Atlas can carry,- we become inured to it all.

Ah yes, we have social media and we sometimes react to some news like Trump's travel ban. But then we do not question the premise that such an action is based on. We accept national sovereignty to be over freedom of movement. We become inured to all imbecilic pain and trouble imposed by states. We accept the status quo. We accept the world that has been presented to us as is. We become simple actors in a cheap soap-opera that we call life.

It's like in the movie Slumdog Millionaire... We forget about the boy whose eyes are carved out as if ice-cream balls to make him a beggar and dance to the happy music at the end.