"Humanity, who are you? Human nature and empathy"
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Sometimes the words line up on the page as if by automatism. There follows a relief. These last months, nothing. A few laborious lines, an empty mind. The feeling of being part of a world that turns less and less round, that has become so incomprehensible that to be interested in it is to get lost in it. A world that lacks atrociously of humanity.
"Humanity, who are you? Human nature and empathy"
- 1. HUMANITY, WHO ARE YOU? HUMAN NATURE AND EMPATHY Humanity is you, it is me, it is us. Where is it going? Where are we going? What impact can we still have on the world of tomorrow? Between apathy and revolt. THE WELL WAS DRY For a long time I was shortof ideas. The ones thatsurfaced seemed futile, so I did notwrite. Nochronicle, no story. A few letters. I confided in my friend Rozanne:"The subjectsthat come to me are 'first world problems';they seem so trivial. Shetells me notto worry. Relax. Let it come. Whenyouhave somethingtosay, youll tell it like it is. Yet the revolt that sparks my pen is always lurkinginside me. Sometimesit burns andexpresses itself in bitter criticism. Butfor the pastfew months, nothing. Humanity nolonger inspires me, nordoes the world it creates. DEFINING HUMANITY First andforemost, humanity is all humanbeings. Big, small, poor, rich, clever, naive, happy, sad, hard-workingand idle. We all share this life thatwe did not 息 Les Voies Libres
- 2. chooseto possessandwhich propelled us to earth. Like bricksassembled to build a single wall. Humanity is also thisability given to all andexercised by some to consider themselvesas part of a whole to intimately feel the relationshipsthat, by connecting all the elements, give meaningto the whole. The sine quanonof empathy, thesource of all benevolence. What hashumanity become?Where is it going? Hasn'tit, globally, committed so many excesses that it haslost its way? My desires follow the same hazardouspath. Sylvie Castagn辿 Zurich, May 27, 2022