Closely Connected

"The Point" by Drew John Tankersley

Happy sez- Years ago in many cultures in many lands people had different methods of communicating with one another across distances; whether from hill to hill or across a vast plain, from smoke signals to
whistles to horns people had ways of bringing themselves, and their world, closer together.  With the technology of  todays modern civilization we have become connected at a quantum level and our world has grown smaller until we are no longer on different mountain tops but we are now connected toe to toe endlessly  disseminating endless information which no one can hear, lone least comprehend.  With this new technologically smaller world we are all closer together than ever before and that is precisely why we need to back off and give ourselves some space -  not the kind of space as in getting away in the "wilderness" for a week or weekend but it is the space that our technology shrinks that we need to enlarge.

I was in a waiting room the other day and I got to talking to a gentleman about how time changes things - a journey that took three days less than a hundred years ago during the time of my parents can now be traveled in an air conditioned automobile in two hours, in those days it went without saying that when someone came by your place the first thing you did was ask them if they were hungry and if they were you shared what you had.  There was no restaurants or motels or roads, the world was farther apart, but people were closer together.  I believe people, like animals, must have a certain amount of space around them to stay sane and that space is not only just the physical kind but includes all types of space; emotional, spiritual as well as virtual.  When too many of us are put too close together it is like trying to put magnets of the same pole together - we repel each other, but when we all have our space it is if those magnets are put in equilibrium with the forces of attraction and repulsion in balance.

Let me know what you think, if we can be too connected with the world shrunk too small - if we need our space and if so, more importantly - what kind of space?

Here are some links:

debate.org
Revolution of Reality
oxfordbibliographies.com
askamathematician.com
britannica.com - magnets