THE BLIND SIDE
The human being is born with a blind side, we have had it since the origins of our species, it was one of the needs for which the first social structures such as “clans” were born during the Paleolithic.
We have preserved it through thousands and thousands of years of evolution, a sign perhaps that it is an essential part of our very nature.
From the moment we are born, our blind side is covered by our parents, by our brothers or sisters, perhaps often older, then by our friends, by our school or team mates, and as we grow up we begin to realize the idea that no matter what we do or how good we are at it, we will always have a blind side, a side that we will not be able to cover ourselves, a side where we will be weaker and more exposed.
Throughout life we will find ourselves facing the most disparate situations and we will find ourselves facing many blind sides, each of which will expose us to different risks, dangers and consequences.
However, the blind side is also something that can create a unique type of bond between two or more individuals, a type of bond that ignores any rational reference, any material dynamics, that type of invisible but stronger bond than titanium, generated from a combination of unique and unrepeatable conditions.
It is said that man is a social animal, yet today the dominant social dynamics are absolutely individualistic, we live in a cynical and brutal world, made up of social environments in which everyone is committed solely to looking after their own interests and their survival in total indifference for what that happens around him and others.
This is the era in which caves have become overcrowded megacities, the era in which most mortal dangers no longer come from nature but are the result of our evolution and derive from something we have done or generated. This is the era in which hunting to survive has been replaced by two taps on your smartphone and food brought straight to your home. This is the era in which you can experience the deepest level of solitude huddled inside a subway or walking down the street among thousands of people.
As a father I often wonder how the new digital generations will understand the value of certain things, but above all how they will pass it on to subsequent generations, because the more I live in this world the more I realize how much I feel like an alien more and more often.
