What is the horizon?
Today, I want to talk about technology and wonder. I'm in favour of both.
I note that emotional education has yet to keep up with technological development.
Addictive behaviours grow exponentially. Society is highly oral (need for immediate consumption and permanent stimulation) and, therefore, finds it challenging to manage the void. That happens with children, young people, and adults. Just look around us at what is happening: people with their eyes often focused on the screen.
Looking at the horizon and into other people's eyes is no longer so common. Parallel to this, psychosomatic illnesses, depression, and other mental illnesses grow exponentially, particularly in childhood and adolescence, not to mention the catastrophic suicide rates.
Society must relearn how to be in a relationship without resorting to the virtual. It would help if you learned how to use technology to your advantage. We all must accept that acting as soon as possible is necessary. Otherwise, this phenomenon will become a public health issue (if it isn't already).
Some send emails at 1 am, but others open these emails. We are all responsible and complicit. The ease of clicking SEND takes over our automatisms. And those on the other side also know that they could be in for a surprise when they open their email inbox. Anxiety kills us, and, at times, it is irresistible. In the past, we could write a letter at 1 am, but we would only post the letter the next day. The boundaries were more organic. Resilience was more natural.
Is it so vital that companies launch technological innovations all the time?! It's the same thing as giving dozens of gifts to a child instead of 1 or 2 so that they can delve deeply into that toy, explore it to the point of exhaustion, and be dazzled by the pleasure it gives them. That is called MINDFULNESS. On top of that, this exploration promotes intelligence! If we don't help a two-year-old child choose, they will get lost in the stimuli and become harried adults with difficulties understanding their needs and establishing priorities!!
Society is returning to that unbridled enthusiasm of the two years without anyone setting limits! Before we need it, we already have things shining—excessive stimulation KILLS DESIRE (Desire is an organic impulse). Let us want to own our Desire, our drive to achieve, our right to feel, to seek, to achieve, to work to achieve, to have space to invent! And that, by the way, technology is just there to serve and help us.
Can't we have the best of both worlds?
If we haven't lost the human capacity to dream, we could have the best of both worlds. For this, it is necessary to have Limits and return to the void to rescue Desire.
Maria Goretti Coelho
