Nuestro código genético tiene el tamaño de una biblioteca de unos 3.000 libros y aquí estamos temblando por apenas unos folios. Unos folios que tienen el poder de matar a quien tenga la mala fortuna de presentar algunas vulnerabilidades.
La muerte no nos gusta. Es algo que nuestra sociedad niega y oculta. No aumenta el consumo ni estimula el crecimiento económico, además es fea y nos recuerda lo peor. Por eso preferimos llenarlo todo de focos y glamour en un intento inútil de maquillar la oscuridad del mundo.
Pero la única forma de vivir con plenitud es ser capaces de considerar nuestra propia mortalidad como algo valioso y fundamental para construir una identidad sólida. Desdeñarla, ocultarla o negarla nos hace cimentar el edificio identitario sobre arena y cuando vienen mal dadas pasa lo que pasa, nos desmoronamos. Impresiona ver como una sociedad entera parece desleirse como un terrón de azúcar en el café.
Si consiguiéramos dedicar algún momento de este confinamiento eterno a mirarnos las narrativas, las creencias, los valores... tal vez consigamos entender que somos algo más que biología.
A virus can be defined as five sheets of paper written on one side. It's barely enough for a short story. Yet there are discourses capable of transforming the world, of sinking or lifting the extraordinary. In our time, we are exceptional witnesses of the globalization of the economy, biology and culture. The problem is that disasters catch us with very weakened narrative frameworks as post-modernity has killed God and dispensed with a stroke of the old maps of the sacred and the profane that we have very happily exchanged for excellently produced television series. When death approaches it is true that it finds us reasonably distracted, but it is also true that there is no entertainment to save us from visceral fear or horror when it manifests itself crudely.
Our genetic code is the size of a library of about 3,000 books and here we are shivering for just a few pages. A few pages that have the power to kill anyone who has the misfortune to present some vulnerabilities.
We don't like death. It's something that our society denies and hides. It does not increase consumption or stimulate economic growth, and it is ugly and reminds us of the worst. That is why we prefer to fill everything with spotlights and glamour in a futile attempt to make up for the darkness of the world.
But the only way to live fully is to be able to consider our own mortality as something valuable and fundamental for building a solid identity. To disdain it, to hide it or to deny it makes us build the identity building on sand and when they are badly given, what happens, we fall apart. It is impressive to see how an entire society seems to melt away like a sugar cube in coffee.
If we could manage to dedicate some moments of this eternal confinement to look at our narratives, our beliefs, our values... perhaps we would manage to understand that we are something more than biology.
自動翻譯,對錯誤感到抱歉。
病毒可以定義為寫在一側的五張紙。短篇小說還不夠。然而,仍有一些話語能夠改變世界,沉沒或提升非凡。在我們這個時代,我們是經濟,生物和文化全球化的傑出見證。問題在於,由於後現代性已經殺死了上帝,並拋棄了我們很高興地交換了我們非常高興地換來的高質量的電視劇的神聖和褻瀆的舊地圖,災難使我們陷入了非常脆弱的敘事框架。當死亡逼近時,它確實會使我們分心,但是當它粗暴地表現出來時,也沒有娛樂可以使我們免於內心的恐懼或恐懼。