but right now touch has become taboo as we and others are a potential danger getting close i mean 6 feet apart how does this lack of touch impact us. it's a question these 3 people know something about director fogg. art historian merely i'm annoyed my staff and. professor of human have to as an escape kind of just to there's no such thing as virtual closeness that's an oxymoron our species only experiences closeness to another human being through some sort of physicality. and soon. touch is our very 1st sounds. cliché feel long before we can smell taste hear or see. from

a very young age we discover the world largely through touch experiencing both its close and and painful sides. whether comforting or destructive every touch tells a story. there's a very important aspect of love but there is also aggression and violence which can be conveyed through gestures and touch you can also show power structures or religious feelings. and childish. and physical contact can also be reckless and not just in paintings during a pandemic thoughtless touching is the biggest and while social distancing is a virtue but what are we giving up. the rooms into and off touch is an important confirmation that i exist figure visible subjects to you that you feel your own self through someone else's touch for did you notice that before covered

19 you could often use physical contact to solve problems or reduce tensions. by hugging one another in such. a hundreds in confidence putting up with modest spotted offers and called to touch is the name of barclays does theatre piece which premiered in 2020 at the munich can. it depicts a dystopia where touching is prohibited and where the dark effect of isolation i visible to the lot of many of you people are definitely becoming more restless dissatisfied and frightened. and i feel like societal tensions are on the rise as some people are going to be crazy and following conspiracy theories. so i do feel as if there's a higher level of madness right now and that we're not grounded and. can ski at a time. it's ironic that the more we socially distance to keep

safe the more insecure we feel. staying apart is the opposite to how we normally act when we are afraid any comfort. or not these are having to navigate this overall difficult situation we are in without being allowed to touch others leads to more feelings of fear and uncertainty and to negative feelings about yourself we are less afraid when we have physical contact. the pandemic have a lasting impact on what we think is appropriate closeness our years have shifted before our. social shakes. take how people used to pack into shakespeare's globe theater. so. they would your innate spirits and eat all together in the same room and we may read about that we think how on earth with a so on hygiene this kind of sign but into war 5 years we may look back and think

how could people have stood so close to one another at concerts. the strange is without any contact tracing swims to contacts or got a snuffle foot could be just a mind. whether it's a hug a pat on the back or just a comforting closeness touch helps us knowledge stress alleviate fear and diffuse conflicts. words alone cannot substitute this business communication. no script it is a new stick and. there are those funny gestures with your elbow or your foot. in the cuts so people are trying to meet their needs for physical communication. when they're trying to establish contact and promote a feeling of closeness through symbolic gestures. to show dong.

we see better what we have touched. and by feeling another. you feel yourself to. these are hard and heartbreaking times throughout the world in the us coronavirus is rampant california has seen more cozy cases and more covert related deaths than any other us state. here to the face of vaccinations has been painfully slow bestselling author t.c. boyle is among the lucky ones he's had his shot still he longs for the pandemic to end. terror i'd also not only a little terror that's been inflicted but this biological terror. i am of the age group who is vulnerable and i'm further volar all because i'm a pessimist. now i haven't gone anywhere or done anything. since this began

within the last 10 months. time in want to see to is nestled between the sentence inas mountains and the pacific ocean. and as a writer he's used to working at home in self-imposed lockdown. you know all writers. 'd horrible people and misanthropic people 'd as well and i want of them yeah we don't want to be bothered by anybody or anything we want to live in our minds however there's another side to lush and that's a social side which i really enjoy going to my village i live in a little village i know everybody part of my life is social and being with all of those people in the village and that has been somewhat difficult. boyle has written over 2 dozen novels and collections of short stories if it weren't for the pandemic he'd currently being germany promoting his latest book talk to me the

novel recounts in part the true story of an experiment conducted in the 1970 s. which turned a chimpanzee into a celebrity. american researches brought the chimp to live in a private household when it was a baby they wanted to see whether he would be able to learn a language and express itself through sign language the experiment was a failure decades later nim chimpsky tragic fate would become the subject of a documentary. t.c. boyle has often written about the life and work of scientists and their sometimes unsettling experiments. boil says he was fascinated by name chimpsky story because the experiment was an attempt to discover what differentiates humans from other animals. and how do you know who you are will you have language and you can talk well the deaf language is different it's a gesture of language how does that work but yes i did all that went back to those

days of the 'd research seventy's and eighty's the cross for string band cheese in human households race and just as you raise your own child to see how language is developed in us but also how it is generally developed it's just really fascinating we work in words we are words where they come from why are we different from today's perspective some past experiments seem odd but boil says that's no reason to mistrust science especially in the corona era. be asleep in the absence of religion in this mysterious world science has become a religion. i can only subscribe to what my 'd 5 senses deliver to me. there may be a mystical row. but i don't know about it. as far as science is concerned i think we must absolutely respect for it yet corona virus has often left even the

scientists stunt so what can we do to prevent future pandemics distin boyle heaven and sun. the microbes rule they rule us you know look at this and then nick now look at how the virus now since we've taken precautions and wearing masks and so on has mutated to become much easily a much more trance miscible much easily already it's done that so why do we learn from this we are all want we are all one as an animal species and we are extremely permissive us in terms of our international travel. and there is no stopping the microbes they would take advantage of this 'd they have. when the next one comes we hope to be more prepared that's all. we seem even less prepared to combat climate change only has to look out his front door to see

the consequences in recent years month to see joe has been hit by mudslides and wildfires his next book will revolve around climate change does he think a book can save the world it might save the world if people knew how to read unfortunately most people don't even know how to read and the habit of reading. literature 'd like any great writers produce. is no longer of the essential source it requires a one on one relationship between the writer and the reader so whether literature exists in the future or no. it has no bearing on what i do just feel so fortunate to be able to do exactly what i want each day as an artist t.c. boyle may be a pessimist but he still has lots of great stories to tell and millions of fans worldwide who will wait to read them.

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