Marguerite Duras

In the 2000s, there will be only answers.
The demand will be such that there will only be answers. All texts will be answers, in fact. I believe that man will be literally drowned in information, in constant information. About his body, his corporeal future, his health, his family life, his salary, his leisure.

It’s not far from nightmare. There will be nobody reading anymore. They will see television. We will have screens everywhere, in the kitchen, in the restrooms, in the office, in the streets.
Where will we be ? When we watch television, where are we ? We’re not alone.
We will no longer travel, it will no longer be necessary to travel. When you can travel around the world in eight days or a fortnight, why would you ?

In traveling, there is the time of the travel. Traveling is not seeing things in a rapid succession, it’s seeing and living in the same instant. Living from the travel, that will no longer be possible.

Everything will be clogged, everything will have been already invested.
The seas will remain, nevertheless, and the oceans.
And reading. People will rediscover that. A man, one day, will read. And everything will start again. We’ll encounter a time where everything will be free. Meaning that answers, at that time, will be granted less consideration.
It will start like this, with indiscipline, a risk taken by a human against himself. The day where he will be left alone again with his misfortunes, and his happiness, only that those will depend on himself.

Maybe those who will get over this misstep will be the heroes of the future.
It’s very likely, let’s hope there will be some left…

(translated from LesInrocks)

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