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The fire burns and consumes, thus being a perfect recipient for our most intimate secrets,as shown by Gus Van Sant in Paranoid Park, where Alex, a teenage skater, feeds his murder confession to the fire.
Most likely discovered by accident 1.9 million years ago, the fire hasn’t been used in a controlled fashion by the human species until 400,000 years ago. The ancient Greeks believed that Prometheus, stole the fire from the gods and gave it to the mortal kin as a gift. While, in his Analogy of the cave, Plato uses it as a device of deception that projects faulty shadows on the cave’s walls, tricking its inhabitants.
Due to its state of aggregation, its heat and light, the fire was often used by humans to signal danger, their presence, or gather around it to warm themselves. Like this the fire becomes a generator of tensions and exchange standing at the foundation of our society. The fire is the origin and engine of our civilization, evolution and development, but as Lev Grossman says at the end of his article 2045: The year man becomes immortal, for Time magazine, to comprehend this evolution and foresee the future you have to think very, very far outside the box. Or maybe you have to think further inside it than anyone ever has before.
