Upcoming video topic: We’ve lost the buffers that ordinarily protect us from the shock of transitions between different roles, responsibilities, forms of communication, activities, relationships and necessities.

Long ago, these buffers were vast and deep. A transition could take an hour… five hours… five days. A month.

Now, however, we’re being crushed in the press of injuries and damage that ensue when these buffers are first forgotten, then eroded, then replaced entirely with their opposite: shock, distonic experiences, and the felt necessity of ‘productive’ activity at all times, and in sequences that are intentionally, creatively, »mechanically… biologically and emotionally… incoherent.

This doesn’t merely obliterate faculties like memory, intelligence and creativity… it poisons the roots from which the entire garden of our faculties emerge.