Hello Darkness, My Old Friend

We have lost what once ruled us

Photo by Altınay Dinç on Unsplash

For most of our time, we have lived half of it in darkness. Only during the 19th century did gas lighting begin to illuminate our streets, cities and towns, finally driving back the darkness. Today, with our world in total artificial illumination, driving a social and work industry that never sleeps, we have little conception of darkness and how it once ruled…