The World From Below
Richard Lopez Salgado
To view people from above … it is an exhilarating experience. You look down from the thirtieth floor in your sky rise apartment overlooking the city. You see nothing but little ants—or should I say sheep—walking in herds toward their quotidian destinations. The Master of these sheep: money. Always watching what’s ahead of them, sometimes looking back, just to make sure. Hey buddy, no surprises. In this city everybody sticks out like a sore thumb, wearing colorful outfits that once might have belonged to a circus. Now it is the trend; highly fashionable. And everyone is exposed to a threat, not knowing what this threat to civilization really is. Is it the lack of empathy which is consuming the world in single bites? And I, one of its victims?
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