The Intermediate Reality

Abstract

History, as a human perspective over time, can be described as an intermediate reality between two important events or between existence and lack of existence. In time of pandemic, the reality is suspended between the old times (as a Golden Era) and the Future – that can both be described only using the concepts of “what it was” and “what it is”. From this point of view, the perspectives for the future could only be described in terms of “hope or despair”. The article tries to show how, throughout the history of humanity, the reality was fragmented into little frames of human conscience of the present. Our frame now is both related to a normal past and a desirable future because the present looks very unpleasant and incomprehensible. However, the glimpse into the future is not comforting because of the destruction of the world as we know it, not due to the pandemic, but to the fatigue of the history. But the pandemic could also be a chance for the history to go on through new possibilities.