2019-10-10

What’s going on here ? (7)


3.7. about the center of gravity of the economy-world



The last post in this series was What’s going on here ? (6) and it addressed the following:

3. determinant factors driving the ‘governance-world’

3.1. Societal atomization
3.2. Creeping totalitarianism
3.3. Western illusions
3.4. The West has no clue about China's strategy
3.5. The West is setting itself up for a rude awakening
3.6. The empire loses its clients

The present post is a continuation and addresses the following 2 realities:
  • how the center of gravity of the economy-world shifted multiple times along its history,
  •  how it is presently shifting from the West (Washington) to East Asia (Beijing).
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2019-09-13

Organic Art Manifesto


I just published the first version of my "Organic Art Manifesto". Its present form is a customization in book form of my last 7 blog posts titled "Organic art  =  the patterns of life" . Later I'll further edit the text. In the meantime I would be grateful to anyone for any suggestions or critiques. Please use the comment section or the mail-form.

http://laodan.byethost7.com/pdf/organic.pdf
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2019-09-05

Organic art = the patterns of life (7)

6.   organic art as answer in the context of Late-Modernity

The concepts ‘beauty’ and ‘ugliness’ are abstract derivations by the mind of a physical awareness that originates in the brain. An awareness of something the brain inherited from biological evolution.

Our brain stores information and uses some of it to take its decisions concerning our integrity and survival. Along their societal evolutionary path humans became aware, in their minds, of a very little portion of this information. It made us aware of ourselves and of our near environment. This set in motion a process of knowledge formation that initiated the rise of societal evolution.

Art emerged as a tool of societal evolution to share knowledge with all and ensure societal reproduction. But by Late-Modernity art, in Western societies, had reached a stage of nothingness. In their search for sense some artists discovered that the fundamentals of the principle of life wash away the arbitrariness of ideologies... and organic art slowly emerged out of the nightmare of Late-Modernity.