"Life in the village is speeding up and time is getting shorter. You could say it is counting down from the beginning. But not only in sheer numbers, but also in terms of insight: you can see how things and with them distances grow, spaces become denser and the time it takes to get through them increases.
Since the village has become a global village, there is more and more news, information and knowledge. But as knowledge increases, so does the unknown. At least in direct proportion, but even more exponentially. This is also true for the recognition of opportunities. As well as in terms of desires, intentions, aspirations. The near, the immediate seems easily accessible, manageable - until its intricate and strong connection with many distant factors is revealed. And the more players involved the greater the chance of complication and deviation.
Kafka used high-bandwidth antennas to follow and describe the unfolding processes not only of the neighbouring village, but also of the world village - in the story of a messenger's progress through a difficult journey suffering one major setback. It is he who 'toils in vain; even now he is only struggling through the innermost palace buildings; he will never overcome them; but even if he did, he would gain nothing; he would have to fight his way down the stairs; but even if he succeeded, he would gain nothing; he would have to get through the courtyards and after the courtyards the second palace that surrounds it, and more stairs and courtyards; and again a palace; and so he would go on, for thousands of years. .." (Message from the Emperor)
The works of Balázs Kicsiny show the possibilities of such messengers moving on and getting stuck; sometimes they try to set off simultaneously for the four corners of the sky in a taxi or land in no-man's land by parachute. But the goal is reached by those who are able from the start to resist the temptation of a neighbouring village and with the right anchors have anchored themselves firmly in staying."
Attila J. Tillmann
