Any death toll that is offered for an earthquake will turn out to be false because there is no one to count them to one. We are talking about a factorial and approximate number to which the injured and those who will have to survive without a home must be added.
We already know that the earth tends to move where the most unfortunate live and that, after seeing the images, we exclaim, leveraged on the sofa and condescendingly, “poor people”.
The arrival of Tik Tok in our lives (the Chinese have created the most addictive application) has generated a round-the-clock newscast where the videos are updated instantly. Saturday night I was glued to terrible images of Marrakesh, of Casablanca …. the videos of houses being destroyed vertically, of people fleeing without knowing where, or even of fixed cameras recording the Mosque were repeated of Mozkoubia with the damage to its minaret
Suddenly I saw a video by a user named Dima that offered images of a razed Berber village: Imlil, sixty kilometers and an hour from Marrakesh, at an altitude of almost two thousand meters and of miraculous beauty. I remember Imlil as a youthful experience, impossible to forget, in a Berber hostel with indescribable views of the snowy Atlas. Imlil has already become history, the neighbor of the epicenter of the earthquake in Morocco, and the video that is repeated on Tik Tok are simply those of an anonymous rune. The earthquake has swept away any image of everyday life, of the lost paradise in that area.
Over the years we are prepared for landscapes to change but not destroy. In nature we have always admired it, now we are engaging it, it is rebelling and becoming hostile. The floods are increasing, the fires are multiplying, the temperatures are rising and now the earthquakes are coming.
Live tight because in Tik Tok, Morocco is not below, it is next to it. Nature is pointing to globalization and, through our iPhone, it shows us that everything is too close even though, always naive, it seems to us that it is still very far away.
