The work featured in today's blog is from a series with the title "Transitional Forms." It is #9 of the series.
The idea of Planet Earth 2.0 is much more than a metaphor for a desire for a better world in which to live. Planet Earth 2.0 begins like all other ideas that mange to enter the panorama of human existence. That is, they begin as a concept that is structured by a number of aesthetic qualities which define its character and provide us with a preview regarding the value of the idea and its applications in the real world.
The transition from planet Earth 1.0 to Planet Earth 2.0 is, of course, a cultural transition - one that has an effect in everyday living that continues untill the time when the former is history and Planet Earth 2.0 becomes the norm.
One of the qualities that distinguish life in Planet Earth 2.0 is that of our new role as co-creators with Nature in order to sustain life in the planet.
That role is new to life on Earth because we are the first species to damage the environment to such an extent that we became the first creatures on Earth to unleash a mass extinction. But that was us in Planet Earth 1.0.
In Planet Earth 2.0 we are going to use our creativity in partnership with Nature to create a new world. Why create a new world?
The answer to that is that if we do not get involved in the maintenance of life on Earth, Nature will take steps to sustain life in a way that is not suitable for our kind of life.
Remember what Nature did after the fall of the dinosaurs? Nature favored us over them and if we are not careful Nature will favor someone else over us.
Anyway, this work of art "Transitional Forms #9" shows the dynamic mixture of human creativity and Nature's tested and true recipes to create structures that meet the needs of life in the new world.
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Enjoy it!
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For those that think it might be too late to change our current course, or that a transition such as this requires more work than we are capable of performing, I ask them to consider the wealth of human ingenuity, creativity, and capability that we have exhibited for centuries while working towards the main priorities of Planet Earth 1.0, most notably that of war. Look at how quickly we learned to become efficient destroyers, capable of decimating entire cities with the push of a button or a single command!
ReplyDeleteBut within this efficiency lies an impressive reason to have hope for our future. These structures (of technology, industry, education, mass mobilization, and more) that have been created on our journey towards destroying the world are one of our greatest assets in our goal of creating a new one. After all, they are just structures, methods of communicating and executing ideas, (methods of communicating and executing dreams?).
So imagine the possibilities of swift change that exist as the ideas and dreams that we begin to communicate are upgraded to those of a Planet Earth 2.0? That same button that destroyed an entire city, can now create a new one in its place. And our same soldiers, with hearts willing to do whatever it takes to save our country, will now begin to do whatever it takes to save our WORLD. I imagine their mothers will still cry (they are mothers after all) but they will no longer be tears of sorrow amidst a possibility of death - on Planet Earth 2.0 they will be tears of joy, proudly shed amidst the probability of LIFE...
Sorry that was quite long. Guess the nut doesn't fall too far from the tree. :)
ReplyDeleteQuite long, but quite astute, Kalon.
ReplyDeleteIf I were to paraphrase, "little needs to change other than the mission."
Thanks for deepening the dialogue.
"Mothers Will Still Cry, (But, Now They're Crying Tears of Joy)" seems like a great title for a painting or a song.