Rant incoming!
The world is going feckin' nuts! I really had such high hopes for us as a species. I thought there would be world peace as people realised that their corrupt governments just loved marching them into war to empire build and funnel money to their weapons manufacturing doners. Science would be based on the scientific method and not be held hostage by dogma. The poor would be lifted out of poverty as the rich realised enough was really enough and decided to push a few more crumbs the pleb's way. We would care for our planet and try to live in harmony with our fellow creatures. Life would be happy for all who wanted it to be so.
But no, We live in a shitshow. War is still waging using the same old imperial lies. Science has become a religion which changes to suit the powers that be. The poor/ rich divided looks like we have gone back to the dark ages and everyone is more concerned with the question of did the actress really poo in the bed?
Please don't take it that I am depressed or angry. Maybe this is the way things have to go to level up. The ills of society are like facing the end of level boss that we need to defeat in order to start a fresh and exciting new level. I have already faced this boss on my personal journey and although I have not started the new level I am drinking a cup of tea and watching others come to the same conclusion. Yes, it may sound arrogant but I believe it is one of the perks of reaching this point, you will feel it too. If anything I have become neutral to most things and in my cynical way just sit back and enjoy the show. No point in getting stressed and giving myself high blood pressure. Society will catch up and we can all continue on together.
Deep down I still have a smidgen of hope for the fate of humanity. I have seen green shoots here and there as people reach the end of their tether and start to question the way things are and if there can be another way. Crypto signposts to some of it. Art, another.
I don't believe that the tools we have used to get us into this mess can be called upon to dig our way out. I don't even believe a revolution will do it this time. What we need is a subculture to form and for all the present systems to become obsolete. That bitcoin guy had similar ideas. We need a renaissance both personal and societal. And, once that has happened we can poach the rest of the souls away from the old system and it will just cease to be.
As regards the poo? I think she done it.
Oh yeh! The images in this post are of a sculpture I made in Sneek, The Netherlands about The Renaissance. The text in this post is just me shootin' the breeze in the same theme.
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The sand art is amazing. I get the rant .. sometimes you wanna scream at the wind, even though you know you gotta focus on the good. X
Thanks Riverflow. Sometimes I don't have much to say about the sculptures themselves and so I like o give a hint about where my head was at when I made it.
Awesome art! Awesome rant and nice to hear you carved this one in Nederland.
Cheers from a fellow tea-sipping observer, who merely shakes his head over the ongoing absurdity of it all.
You can find all the sculptures I made in The Netherlands by clicking on my Pinmapple map.
Things can only get better now that the jury has found Amber Herd guilty of the poo.
Where do I find your Pinmapple map?
Do you have any in Portugal, as that is where I hang out ( and have spent most of my time ) since 2018.
Cheers!
Oh brother, you are at the same place I am. I am now watching the younger folks and waiting to see that point when they realize that that shit don't matter. (pun sort of intended) I like to think it's an age thing but I just had a moment with a 67 year old at the dump. He told me that there is no such thing as Covid and when I explained to him that I have had it twice, he told me it was just a cold. Even after I told him that the second time I was coughing so much and so violently that blood was coming up, he still maintains it was just a cold.
I agreed to disagree and went about my day. I hope he doesn't get the cold I had, even though he might think twice about what he "knows". As always, I love the art and was wondering if you scrapped the pile of wires in your attic yet. Probably some good copper in there. ;)
Interestingly I was just at the dump on Saturday also. Luckily the credit card reader was broken and I was allowed to dump everything for free. It was great to get stuff for free as it would have cost €150. I went straight to the Hardware shop and spent my savings on insulation for my attic.
Still have to rewire my attic, unfortunately, my brother who was going to help and knows how has ended up in hospital. I am not sure if there is much copper wire there as my father seemed to use some sort of rubberised steel wire. My plan is to run all the new wires and then get a pro to do the connecting up. After all that is done then on to the insulation. I'm going to be busy. and am documenting as I go.
I have become neutral to most world events as I just don't know what information to trust. This whole War thing is a good example. Now that all opposing views have been censored I can't form an opinion and so prefer to stay out of it and not put a flag next to my name.
My wife caught Covid twice and my son once so I know how real it is but also the official stories have changed so much these last two years I don't know what to believe there either. All I can do is try to take care of my family as best I can and at least in that way I can feel some sort of control.
Wonderful 😍
Thank you, Sorry I have not been writing many comments myself on your wonderful work. Life is crazy at the moment.
No problem, I know you' re working hard, and art is more important than meassages 😁
I'm sure a lot of us have felt that rant on more than one occasion :)
Good to hear I am not the only crazy one.
This is why you should always talk about things ;D
Sometimess I think I talk too much.
It can feel that way sometimes especially if no one else will say anything, but I feel like we keep getting told that things are "taboo" topics and often they're the things that need to be sanely talked about the most, and that if more frank (and gentle because hard) discussions like that were going on (and if we were in fact taught HOW to have those discussions instead of being metaphorically screamed at that we should never talk about them ever because no one wants to know) there might be less problems in general.
I could also just be projecting onto the wrong things :)
Gorgeous concept!!
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