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The Global Nervous System
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There are some serious commotions and disruptions — like plagues, lengthy wars, genocides, famines, and such — that leave a wake of physical death and destruction behind them. These catastrophes are often accompanied and followed by waves of collective mental-emotional distress and torment, of course. The repercussions of these physical disasters often echo in the minds and hearts of the survivors and their progeny.
When these devastating catastrophes are perpetrated and carried out by humans themselves — mostly by ambitious and power-hungry men — instead of being natural disasters (what insurance agents perversely call “acts of God”), they leave wounds and scars behind that tend to be difficult or impossible to heal…
Occasionally — as in the apartheid American South or South Africa in the not so distant past, the Holocaust, or in the era of colonial expansion and conquest — the distinction between perpetrator and victim is clearly visible…
For the moment — as of today — the momentous disruptions and jolting disturbances that are underway are preponderantly mental or psychic disturbances. These are spread like viruses through the global nervous system of the Internet, social media platforms, news outlets, and fiery personal changes.
