Summary
Pascal Bruckner: Temptation of Innocence
"The whole earth, one could say today: because by uniting the planet through technology, means of communication, weapons of total destruction, it makes the whole of humanity present to itself. This immense fluidity has a terrible reverse: we are potentially covered and informed about everything that happens at every moment. The "global village" is nothing but the sum of the forces that all people they are subjected to the same externality, and from which they try to protect themselves. This interdependence of peoples and the fact that distant actions have innumerable counter-effects for us becomes suffocating. The more the media, trade, exchanges, the closer the continents and cultures become, the more unbearable the chaining of forces that we cannot influence at all." In this quote is the essence of the problem analyzed by Pascal Bruckner in "The Attack of Innocence".
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