In light of my previous post, what is philosophy?
It is a vision, a way of viewing the world, it provides
us with a lens in which we can perceive the world.
So what does this mean for us?
It means we must think about what indoctrinations we
enforce upon our children………… if we force
negative indoctrinations upon our children, they
will view the world negatively, through the negative
instincts of lust, hate, anger, greed…….
if we indoctrinate our children with positive values,
the values to see the world through the positive
values of love, charity, hope, justice, peace………
and so we now attempt to connect the “modern” world with
seeing, with vision………
If you compare art through the ages, especially Art before 1880,
we see art as fairly straight forward. Art was pictures of
scenery and of people and was the building were built
along classical Greek or Roman styles and statues were
also based along classical Greek or Roman style…….
You can easily follow Art as it progressed from the Middle
ages to 1880 as it evolved but it didn’t radically change…
why? Because the way people viewed the world didn’t radically
change… yes, you had science and the new philosophy which was
different, but it didn’t change the basic values of people from the
Middle ages to 1880…… You still had people believing in god and
tradition and the right of kings… the basic vision of
who we were really didn’t change much from the middle ages to 1880…
Then the industrial revolution occurred and that changed our vision of who we were…
we saw ourselves differently after the industrial revolution…….
for the first time in history, we had concepts like alienation and that
alienation came from what the industrial revolution did to our vision,
to our seeing the world differently……
Art changed starting in 1880 as a response to the changing
vision, the changing “seeing” that we had of people and
institutions and experiences…
The radical changes in art reflect the way we changed
in seeing ourselves… the paintings of Monet for example
reflect the way we change in our seeing who we are and
what is possible…….
Look at impressionist paintings… see the new style was
the atomization of art which reflects the atomization of man…
we were no longer connected to the system, we were disconnected,
alienated from society and our fellow man by the industrial revolution…
and this seeing, this vision is reflected in our art…art can be considered
to be a vision, a way of seeing ourselves and that vision changed because
we saw ourselves differently and this is also reflected in other aspects of art…
Literature and sculpture and painting and architecture all changed because we
now see ourselves differently… and our ideologies, our ism’s changed
because we see ourselves differently… our indoctrinations changed because
we see ourselves differently… it is about our perceptions, our vision of ourselves
that matters………
change our perceptions and change the world for the world…for the world is
a reflection of our perceptions, not our perceptions is a reflection of
the world…….
how we see the world changes the world………
change your perceptions and you change the world…
the world may be exactly the same but if you change
how you view the world… the world changes…
see the world differently and the world becomes different…
Kropotkin