We are facing a society-wide emotional apoplexy: the loss of consciousness due to a rupture deep inside our minds and souls. Something essential has been severed, unwired, removed, erased. I believe we have been placed under a collective hypnosis, staring at the hypnotizing screens of television, and now computers and cell phones, which have somehow disrupted the workings of our minds and caused us to descend into lethargy and inertia. Our apoplectic responses are pitifully insufficient.