We are permanently distracted by the possibilities of global communication, and take each other true hardly, writes the author Dana Grigorcea. This poses a risk to companies, as we know it.
Writers be delicate seismograph of our society, has said the city President of Zurich, Corinne Mauch, and the other day in an assessment. Literature could explain many things, and much to predict.
How aptly this evaluation is shown by the example of George Orwell’s: His novel “1984” was after the scandal to Orwell’s “alternative facts” presented by a spokesperson from Donald Trump to the journalists in the White house, once again to the international Bestseller. Also, I handle back to this book.
I read it and I had to constantly think of Orwell’s manuscripts, and as the typewriter typed pages of his manuscript were edited. Almost every line was painted with Royal blue ink and re-written, either with red, dark green or black ink. You could investigate on the basis of the manuscript pages, as Orwell’s state of mind when Writing, if and when he struck firmly into the keys, a set of simple or several times by stroke, and so forth.
A faster Glide through life
Orwell wrote “1984” in a time that was more sensual than our own, in a past time, it came with far more substances in contact, and you needed to Write, to Communicate, in the case of the Spread of (Self-)messages have far more in body than in our digital age.
I wonder if this lack of feel and reduced sensuality in everyday life, which dulls us to some extent – so this is faster to Glide through life, which has enabled us the technical development – could have not made less culpable? A steep Thesis: But many do not support the current citizens educated in Europe but dangerous demagogues, or not defend yourself in your anger, or your personal hatred of the world is not enough against unconstitutional power takeovers?
Orwell’s pessimistic vision of the future has become since the appointment of Donald Trump back to the customer
Today, we can do a lot more than our ancestors, but, sensual, spoken, personally, less true of the world, can be considered, therefore, in the personal everyday life, too much less and much less consistently act. Up to now, we can get away with it. Although or because the catastrophe has broken over Europe and the world only just come in, 1914, 1939.
More music, more encounters, more joy
We all are distracted by the possibilities of global communication, tired and drained by the sort of information breaking over us, are at the decisive Moment absent,according to kaspernd in their own echo chamber. What to do? Or, as Orwell would have formulated: WHAT to DO?
I am convinced that we can save, the sensuality. We need to exercise even more, each other more to notice. It needs music that is more than just a private radio disturbance, it needs literature, which is more than parched concept of literature, more discussion, no meta discussions, more meetings, more sensuality in the culture of food, more walks, more a return to the Essential, to the deeper needs, and, Yes, the joys of the life.
For that you would need in Europe more time, one could argue confidently. However, in the case of Epictetus is: “Because that’s what you want, what contributes to your happiness, but you do not seek it where it is.”
“Democracy needs idleness”
In the Romania of my Childhood, many people I knew had fixed a jour: My grandmother met with her Friends every Thursday to play cards, my parents and their colleagues from the University every Saturday to the quasi-secret video in the afternoon, my neighbor had a reading circle, Sunday lunch, we ate with friends. On Land every house had a bench seat in front of the gate, the neighbors talked until deep in the night; in the Winter we had to shovel out hardly any of the snow between the houses, because the neighbors kept tamped the trails flat. Now, many neighbors do not know, neither in the cities nor in the country. And I know of no one more in Romania, which would have a jour fixe.
In the literature, blog New telegrams, I lead with my husband, author Perikles Monioudis,, we also maintain a Format with author interviews, that is Entre nous. It consists of seven fixed questions for each new book of the authors or an author. We ask for the topics, stories, and discourses that interest you currently. The Austrian author Martin Prinz answered, for example, in my mind: “I can feel how the world as we know it, or to know believe, on the Brink. I think that a good part of the crisis of the reductions, the breathlessness and the puffery of our society. On this Basis, democracy can’t exist, so the Car is only to be rather stronger. Because democracy needs idleness. One of the places where such freedom can take back, is the literature.”
Dana Grigorcea, Born in 1979, is a Swiss-Romanian writer and philologist. In 2011, she debuted with the novel “Baba Rada”, which she wrote in German. Last of 2015, the novel was published of “The primary sense of innocence”.