Charles Dickens wrote carried by Cervantine grace. In one of the pieces he published in his weekly magazine All the Year Round, the author from Portsmouth brought us up to date on what happened in 1859, when a spider’s web of cables darkened the London skies, spreading a dense electrical network over the rooftops that covered the daylight. It was going to be just the beginning.
Because if we had developed organs that would allow us to make the microwaves of the electromagnetic spectrum emitted by our mobile phones visible, we would realize that what Dickens wrote regarding the wiring of London was not so serious compared to current times.
We live trapped in a fabric that conditions our health and we are not aware of the spider web that imprisons us, assuming that our anxiety attacks and recurrent headaches have their origin in something else. But as the mathematician Arthur Firstenberg clarifies in his book the invisible rainbow, the so-called anxiety disorder did not begin to be known until the 1860s, when the telegraph wiring traveled our planet. Already put, Arthur Firstenberg is based on a good number of medical studies to affirm that diabetes was then as little widespread as heart disease, since there was hardly any heart disease.
The relationship between disease and technology is very well explained in this work recently published by Atalanta, where Firstenberg makes a historical review of electromagnetic fields from the beginning, with the Leyden experiment, to the present day, showing us the ugliest and most sinister face of the technology.
For those who don’t know yet, the Leyden experiment took place in 1746 at the University of the same name. With the aforementioned experiment it was shown that water conserved electrical charges. Since then, the domain of the electrical fluid has been used for the benefit of human beings, not only for our lighting, but also for therapeutic use.
However, the consequences of electricity, its secondary effects, were not unknown at that time, although today they have been forgotten. Physicians George Beard and Alphonso Rockwell in their Practical treatise on the medical uses of electricity, published in 1881, stated that a good number of people were affected by electricity. They are the so-called electrosensitive people, to whom electricity causes adverse effects in the same way that storms cause them.
There is a direct relationship between artificial electricity and atmospheric electricity; both depend on the same fluid, as the physicist Pierre Bertholon (1741-1800) explained in his day. Because of this, people who are sensitive to the weather, and whose body and mood predict a storm, are also sensitive to electricity. Currently, immersed in the pot of pressurized radiation that we do not perceive with our eyes, people who are sensitive to the tangle of radio frequencies suffer from diseases whose treatment is far from the chemistry contained in pills, being detoxification, that is, disconnection , the only possible cure to so much saturation of gadgets.
This is somewhat difficult, because we suffer from a syndrome that we could well baptize as bike Syndrome, and that it is nothing more than the syndrome of being aware of the gadget for 24 hours a day, as if it were a vital prosthesis. This happens because we are connected for fear of not being connected, I do not know if I am explaining myself, but it is something that did not happen in Dickens’s time, where there were people who, for fear of a voltaic cell, stayed away from technological advances . And if they got close, they did so in the manner of Don Quixote when he faced the windmills.
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