PROJECT COMPLETE: WITHOUT SUFFERING

Without Suffering is a multimedia visual study of human inability to process data overload in the age of informational flood; and apathy as an inevitable consequence.

The world at large is becoming radically complex. The combination of interconnectedness on economic, social, and informational levels and exponential converging technologies increased the speed of growth of said complexity at a level never encountered before. 

Humanity on average does not possess relevant tools to process the overload of incoming data. Overwhelmed by rapid change and complexity, human cognition defaults to fanaticism, anxiety, or apathy in search of simplification. The path of fanaticism through disillusionment results in apathy. So does the path of anxiety, once the brain is drained of cognitive resources to process the loop of doom.

The dangers of an apathetic society are obvious. It will inevitably fall victim to a dystopian regime. 

This project is a call for action to create new cognitive tools available to the masses, popularize the issue, and promote novel solutions as they become available. 

I haven’t had a chance
To stop
And memorize
Why

Why am I here
Why am I anywhere

Why is this world so crumbled
Sky is about to collapse forever
Moon swallowed by the brightness of the flashing lights

Blue, red and white

And coroner’s arriving

And sometimes doesn’t
And sometimes
Lights don’t flash
moon is still
Sky is still

Everything still
And sometimes silent

How do I sort
Through every version
Every version of the version
Of the version

Complexities
Of the complexities
Of the complexities

Ever crumbling crumbles

So I know where
And maybe
Where to go