The virtual world (screens, smartphones, Internet, social media, etc) is an externalization of the mind. The person talking next to me is no longer speaking to me but to someone miles away. We have lost touch with the physical world, which has become so safe and boring that it only requires scant cursory glances to navigate and pass through. Mind is now all important, but not the deep quiet mind that lingers like a limpid mist, but the nervous mind that cannot stop, flits anxiously from one sensation to the next, and never finishes anything.