In the face of total defeat

We live in an incomprehensible world. Incomprehensible in the scope of human cruelty and the degrees of power that support it. Total defeat is the feeling that there isn’t even hope in beginning. Total defeat demobilizes you before you begin. Total defeat also comes when feeling better can only be catharsis, when feeling better is counterproductive. There is no more comfort in comforting ourselves, we face catastrophe so great that comfort should make us nervous.

The only hope that remains external to crushing annihilation comes from other people: the hope that we can form connections with other people so that we may escape together. Our goal must be communication and cultivation of communities so that we can eradicate the crushing weight of an individual response to the constant war of existence. Technology delimits communication in communities, defining to whom and how people interact. The terrain of struggle must occur beyond content; it must occur on the ground of technology (of people, posture, cities and sitting in front of screens) to offer new and collaborative definitions of the problems we face, and how to overcome them.

Duncan