LIVING INSIDE THE LABORATORY

Masks made out of plastic or cotton or recycled materials protect each other’s bodies full of bacteria, germs, worms, and thousands of micro organisms, to be discovered by science or dismissed as unimportant or marked as demons that had taken over the material world. 

A homeless man wears over his face a paper bag found in the trashcan; feels comfortable enough to ask for a dollar. He needs food or drugs to satisfy his weakening body. People tell him to go away. 

We are all under investigation, suspects of carrying the virus; carefully studying the specimens living inside the new laboratory. Afraid, we distrust each other. 

Had society tried to understand knowledge and science and revelations under more comprehensive but rational ways, perhaps, there would be a different cosmological, conceptual, physical view of the internal and social convulsions and dynamics taking place during the Pandemic. 

Perhaps, the approach to learn how to live inside the laboratory would have not been interrupted, sabotaged by the old animists, believers in spiritual forces ruling diseases, or by the destructive organisms that take the form of some human bodies.

Perhaps, we would not be so afraid of each other.