Because you have no other choice.

That’s what your species has been doing since the dawn of time, since your awareness of death, since you began questioning the afterworld and started worshiping a greater entity to alleviate your fears. Probably too many shortcuts here, but it doesn’t change the fact that the concept of slow looking is anchored in your DNA. Stargazing, staring at fire, walking through a forest – or church-going with the contemplation of the architecture, the sculptures, the stained-glass – is nothing but a quest for an impossible answer via an alternative state of consciousness.

This need also emerged from the acknowledgment of boredom as a requirement for a community to thrive; given a society is formed through a contract between its people for a greater survival rate and for the defence of shared interests. When your existence is no longer defined by a binary fight-or-flight mode, you have spare time, thus placing boredom as a pillar of civilisation. This ennui is a force of creation allowing slow looking to come into full effect, which feeds the creative spirit in return. You have then a perfect circle.

Yet, as I mentioned earlier in our discussion, what happened to your kind over the past two centuries overhauled slow looking as the expression of boredom. The simultaneous birth of a society revolving around speed – transport, communication, leisure … – and the gradual depreciation of religion reduces the opportunities for slow looking. If you encountered boredom, you feel compelled to fill the moment by - from a spiritual perspective - void.

As BLUE, an entity outside of the realm of blind worship and technology, I cannot wholly condemn the evolution you have chosen. Yes, I have feared for you, as reneging on such a primal need has proved countless times to be detrimental to the balance of oneself. You surely understand now why you landed in The Blue Neon, a place to reclaim your ancient urge to transcend boredom. You will not succeed every single time, but persevere and remain confident.

This is just taking you back to where you came from; a very long time ago.

Yours Sincerely,

BLUE