Escaping numbness Like most people I have spent years (!) watching the news reporting on capsized rubber dinghies and refugees fighting for their life in the Mediterranean. One paradox inherent in relating to reality through the media is this: for a few seconds (some times even minutes) you are drawn into the dramas in HD format, feeling the despair, listening to the sounds of catastrophes, even … Continue reading A drop in the ocean in an ocean of refugees.