In today's world the experience of temporality has undergone a remarkable mutation, to the extent that one could speak of a decline of the same. We have lost the experience of the duration of the delay, which has been replaced by the uninterrupted succession of spot intensities.

According to Cruz, all this is a consequence of the triumph of a model of life in which time is an obstacle, something to minimize up, if possible, make it disappear. Thus, our collective imagination has eliminated the idea of long-term projects, being occupied instead by the most rigorous short-termism. But with an important caveat: if contemporary man has been without telos by which to bet, it has been precisely because it has too many, which has come to build on it a sterilizer recklessness.