How to lead the human species in a way where each one of us lives in symbiosis with our neighbors and our environment? Research in humanities offers some ideas.
Symbols and screens lock us in a mental jail. They move us away from reality as it was originally experienced, by the senses.
Screens are television, computer, smartphone or tablet, game console. Watching screens has become a common hobby, a companion, and, for families, a nanny. However, this leisure is not without danger for the cognitive development of children. Furthermore, it increases prejudices, aggressiveness and pathogenic consumptions.
Contemporary life has progressively moved us away from a sensory reality by replacing it by symbolic realities that make sense to the human community. In doing so, it locks us into the human comedy.
