This weekend I visited a cave with prehistoric paintings. Paints made with iron oxide and manganese about 30,000 years ago. These visits seem interesting to me to relocate our place as human beings in the world, they are an opportunity to rethink the “development” of recent history and the future. It seems that in the time of caves there was a lot of technology: technologies for drawing statements that would last thousands of years, technologies for fueling fire that didn't produce smoke, proto-cinematographic technologies that created the illusion of motion with fire using forms of caves ... My current brain sees in those creations clarity, the excitement of painting the walls, finding new materials, sharing stories in groups with the illusion of the movement of images by fire -- but my brain is not from that time, it's comfortable in today's life, and the time of the caves understands it as an experience. My current brain doesn't understand the sound of the time, the darkness of the night, the threats ... He does not understand that the meanings of the time were perhaps more related to fear and that cave technologies emerged to find refuge. Many of the technologies we have today stem from the need to live the best possible life in the environment in which we live, to protect ourselves from threats in the search for that good life, in short, to reduce the fear that they cause us.

Humans from the time of caves, so attached to the ground, got the sense of protection creating layers of abstraction. On the contrary, many human beings today, who pass through the land of this time, without having many direct relations with that land, we have turned the supposed certainty of the abstract world into our day.