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Tech-vexed: how digital life threatens our capacity for awe
In this tech-vexed age, our life on screens prevents us from experiencing the mysteries and transformative wonder of life
And what if I told you that you will be able to feel as I did as a 12-year-old lying on a beach near New York City in 1968 – outstretched on the sand with the wind in my hair and the waves lapping at my heels, fresh out of the water where I bodysurfed and wave-hopped to my heart’s content. It intensifies the poignancy of a Rembrandt or a Van Gogh; the rapture of a Beethoven’s Ninth or Mahler’s Fifth symphony; the vivacity of a Zorba the Greek; and the nobility of a Kirsten Dunst in the masterful Lars von Trier film Melancholia(2011). I reflect on the great chain of being among me, my son, my father, my mother, my aunts and uncles, my grandfather and grandmother, and my great-grandparents as far back as I could remember, and how appreciative I am of their stories and offerings that led us to this moment on a roiling sea.
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