How human consciousness reacts when the flow of information – the hot news constantly bombarding it – reaches a critical point?
With the appearance of mass media, news as a phenomenon is becoming an important part of our social existence. Burning news has to rouse the consciousness, inflame the heart and render the intellect incandescent. But instead of exciting us the opposite happens – an effect of anaesthesia. The mind sinks into anabiosis.
Although there is a phase when the human fight for survival provokes a surge of vital energy. Frequently this takes the form of chthonic aggression.