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The age of Dematerialisation can be understood as a sudden reaction to materialism’s brute facts of reality.

Hyperconnectivity, rather than fostering community, deepens social division and superficiality.

Hypermobility, rather than bringing genuine proximity, displaces us and leaves longing for a deeper belonging.

Hypermobility and hyperconnectivity are mechanisms of escape - ways we flee reality.

Pascal once observed that humanity’s problems come from our inability to sit quietly in a room.

Today, we travel everywhere, always seeking elsewhere, yet never truly arriving and never belonging anywhere.

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Why are we driven to escape reality? Perhaps T.S. Eliot had it right:

“Humankind cannot bear very much reality.”

Constant connectivity distracts us, perpetual movement uproots us- anything to avoid confronting the stillness where reality awaits.