We Live in a Shriveled, Angry Frightening World
Our world is getting smaller, more restrictive, poorer, less hopeful, more polluted and less livable. Something that Palestinian film director Elia Suleiman said in a France 24 interview on the occasion of the release of his newest film “It Must Be Heaven”, resonated deeply for me: “the world today has become a global Palestine.” In that short sentence the film director who always plays an ever-silent character in his ground breaking movies, picked up on a universal theme and trend that defines the modern human condition: hopelessness. The majority of humans today are mired in deep unending unresolvable poverty that limits their movement both social and physical, geopolitical realities confine us all to our own particular corner of the third world, each group struggling to survive day to day, to feed ourselves from lands that are getting less and less fertile, waiting for rains that do not come, isolated from each other through sectarian or ethnic or political divisions th