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INTERCONNECTEDNESS: FACING REALITY

When There Is No Place Called Home

Ours is a culture obsessed with the pursuit of happiness. As a consequence of this, we are more lonely, estranged, and lost than at any other time on this planet. The 32,000-year-old cave paintings and Paleolithic sites of paintings, pictographs, and petroglyphs all have handprints on the walls. Handprints, one on top of another, stamped there over tens of thousands of years, images from another time of togetherness.

How do we indicate we’re together? Number of followers. Number of likes on a post. Being friended. A long Snapchat streak.16 Nearly at the speed of light, we can ...

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