Why Do We Feel Lonely?
The Singularity has the potential to bring a form of connection that is unknown to humankind today. This heightened sense connectivity can bring can bring humans out of their isolation, and for the most part, bettering their lives in the process.
VIDEO CONTEXT:
“Dark Was the Night Cold Was the Ground” by Blind Willie Johnson
Blind Willie Johnson wasn’t blind his whole life. He was blinded as a child when his step mother threw lye in his face. He died of malarial fever, homeless after his house burned down. He died of malarial fever sleeping on the streets, after his home burned down and he was denied entry to a hospital for the color of his skin.
His song "Dark Was the Night, Cold Was the Ground" was one of the 27 songs chosen to represent Earth and the human condition on the Voyager Golden Record, which launched into space in 1977 on Voyager I. His song "concerns a situation [Johnson] faced many times: nightfall with no place to sleep. Since humans appeared on Earth, the shroud of night has yet to fall without touching a man or woman in the same plight" (Sagan). It was chosen to represent one aspect of the human condition--loneliness. Today, his song is way out in interstellar space, aboard the farthest manmade object from earth, representing us.
His song "Dark Was the Night, Cold Was the Ground" was one of the 27 songs chosen to represent Earth and the human condition on the Voyager Golden Record, which launched into space in 1977 on Voyager I. His song "concerns a situation [Johnson] faced many times: nightfall with no place to sleep. Since humans appeared on Earth, the shroud of night has yet to fall without touching a man or woman in the same plight" (Sagan). It was chosen to represent one aspect of the human condition--loneliness. Today, his song is way out in interstellar space, aboard the farthest manmade object from earth, representing us.