Superhighway

Superhighway: the street that heads for Utopia. In the Cyberspace Era we are all on this trip, eluded victims trying to obtain more knowledge. Knowledge, based on the Superhighway code, should be obtained by the “democratic” access of information. In the madness created by the global village, mankind runs the risk of becoming a victim of that which it has created. Did you think that you could communicate via e-mail without problems? Here we are drowning in a sea of SPAM, trash messages, that pose a threat and invade our privacy. The grand promise of this Superhighway is the possibility to use our free time to discover a new Utopia, a world made easier with the help of Superhighway. Once we find ourselves in the fast lane of this Superhighway we realize that we are going in the wrong direction, straight towards the city of stress. Where instead of finding more free time and a better daily life, we find that we are trapped inside a prison, lost in Google searches, lost in technological solitude rather than cruising and communicating on the Superhighway from their own “habitat”. Each and everyone of us trapped in a collective monologue with the illusion of sharing a real experience. All of this happens in a precise context that has been brought to us through the course of history, to a kind of universal understanding, a “competent” understanding, an understanding that all of this chaos is rational.

Superhighway is a high speed access to the world and its secrets that dominates the mind and is built upon a model in which having worldly experience no longer has any value. In the homogonous spirit that tends to eliminate the differences, the medium is no longer an instrument, but a parallel world. In this world the grand illusion is that mankind can use technology in a neutral manner without running any risks. Human nature has modified the conventional methods of communication. The world exists due to communication when in reality the opposite is true.

Superhighway: the road where the inorganic conquers the senses and wins against the organic in the game of life. Where being objective takes first place and is more important than suggestion, where quantity wins and not the quality, where the instrument is more important than the outcome.

What role does art have in all of this? Maybe art serves to re-discover the real meaning of communication, to interpret the mysteries of world and to amplify collective participation in poetic dimensions and to give feeling back to life. All this signifies that we are changing the broken “crazy way” by taking the more difficult path; the most torturous way is the one that allows us to get a closer and deeper look at ourselves, a real heart to heart. It means speaking out about what is a necessary ethic in this illegible world of chaos and bringing it back to humane comprehension. Creativity, in fact, finds sense not in a functional way, but as a priority meant to enlarge experience. Creativity can now be seen as the true “home for being” for those who understand the distinction between reality and appearance, and the method to realize the “infancy of mankind”.