Atemporality

I have recently watched a youtube video titled Atemporality: Our Relationship To History Has
Changed in which the creator talks about how undefined this current moment in time is in
comparison to the history of the world, that we have lost the connections to the past and by that lost
our true values. And as a conclusion he states that, ''fortunately'' for us, with the network power of
Internet today, we are able to recreate our new identity.

First of all, by severing the connection between a man and his history, he loses his cultural heritage
which is maybe the only thing standing in a way of complete globalisation. When you make a man
unaware of the historical moment that he is living in, his connection to his ancestors and all the
work that came before, you will make him completely submissive and ready to impose to him any
idealogy and style of living that you desire. And that is what we see happening in a world today, for
continuing this trend of exploiting the humanity by the capitalisme, the capitalists needed various
mechanisms that they would use in order to sedate the population that still has free time outside of
their working hours that allows them to potentially organise themselves against this world order.

Among these different mechanisms is the Internet. Despite being incredibly usefull and
revolutionary, the Internet today plays the role of an agent that allows globalisme to flourish. Never
before in the history has the knowledge been so accesible but never before has the way of spreading
the misinformation and manipulating been easier. Our minds have become more and more lazy,
becoming completely dependent of what we see or hear in this virtual world. In doing so, we are in
fact creating the community that no longer draws connection to the past and which suits perfectly to
this nation destroying trend. In the begining of the last century we had a period of one of the biggest
rises of national awarenesses in the history and by the end of that same century and entering into the
20th, thanks to a digital era we have all those nations striving to unify. What is going to become of
us if we let this thing to continue?

One of the best illustrations was made by Jorge Luis Borges in his short story ''Utopia of a tired
man'' in which the main character finds himself in the future which at a first glance looks ideal
nobody is hungry anymore, all the diseases have been cured, people get to live for centuries... But
as he quickly finds out, all these ''improvements'' come at a price as a man he meets tells him that
they no longer have identity, they are not concerned with the past which is even being ridicoulosy
misinterpreted, there is no education system and in doing so, everybody was left to himself to
flegmaticly live as long as they want without much being concerned with anything.
This raises another interesting question, is the true utopia a place where there are no longer conflicts
and people are living carelesly or are the conflicts those which push people to activity that results in
both good and bad things that are happening to us and that the true peaceful utopia is not possible
without losing the very thing which makes us human? Whatever the anwser to this question may be,
we need to keep asking them and not let others decide our faith or I am afraid that we will soon end
up as the future man from Borges's story who decides to end his life in a crematorium, which was as
he states ''designed by a great humanist Albert Hitler''.