دانلود کتاب تجارت جهانی در عصر ویرانی و حواس پرتی

The constancy of life has the tendency to be consuming. Please understand that being a consumer of life is a strategy embraced by many, myself included. However, being a consumer of it and having life consume you are two different concepts. I confess that while I subscribe to one, I am the victim of the other. Life’s consumptive appetite is for time. It steals minutes, then hours, then vast periods of time that seem to vanish without a trace. Today this has moved beyond the pale of lack of attention to a weaponised system of distraction. Information and hypernarratives come at us from all directions. Distraction is ever-present. Not long ago, my wife and I attended the All School Reunion of the high school from which we graduated. We visited with people with connections that went back to childhood, which seemed closer than the history it represented. Great memories of fun and friendliness seem fresh, but life, in its chariot of time, is hidden by memory which compresses the distance between two points. What seems fresh is placed by history 50 years in the past. The chariot can move quickly and blurs the scenery unless we stay alert. Moments of memory seem to be outside of time and give a different viewpoint of where we have been and where we are going. It is from this perspective that my friends and I have written this book. The mistress of time is cloaked in an age of distraction and destruction. For some, it is a struggle to keep their eyes open, and history becomes a reality, with change becoming the destroyer of worlds. However, the chariot of memory seems to fold time, allowing us to use the past to choose the future. Just as those friends from years past look much different than my memories of them, they remain who they were. The relationship becomes the message. The benefits of successes and failures enable us to reinvent and revitalise who we are. This interconnection allows us to consume life and not worry about being consumed by it. When you lift your head above the blur of the journey, you can see all the mountain tops.