ARTSENSE Acrylics Collection. n# 24. The dawn of order.
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Forms, shapes, color harmonics, textures, rhythms, fluctuations, waves and patterns are discernible in the general confusion and will eventually go reinforcing themselves. But the road is still long to reach their complete being, many accidents are still possible that could derail the process in the making.
Irreversibility shows us that the movement is going forward and uncertainty shows us that it is at the mercy of influences that are out of our sight and out of our ability to forecast.
This describes quite well the situation that the human specie finds itself locked into in late modernity at the dawn of the 21st century.
The expansion of modernity to the four corners of the earth has wrought upon us much uncertainty:
- Traditional societal modes of organization are crumbling bringing about chaos in most of the countries. The last round of globalization of trade and finance extended that chaos to the industrialized countries themselves.
- The other living species are struggling to survive the assault by human modernity on their environmental niches and scientists are describing this as being the 5th period of mass-extinction to have occurred on earth.
- The conditions of modernity have imposed themselves, along the last two centuries, on barely 15% of the world population but the impact of that process has brought the climates of different regions to a point of rupture that will spell trouble for the survival of large swathes of population among the most needy and that could possibly bring about the collapse of our societal systems and ultimately of modernity itself.
- The technologies that permitted the expansion of trade and finance also opened the windows of each house on earth onto a very peculiar image of the global village that has been fashioned by invested capital: Hollywood, Las Vegas, New York,... In one go the whole world got to swallow traditionally forbidden images of individualism and greed. This led those 85% of the people on earth, who had remained excluded from modernity until then, to bang on the table claiming their own access to what they perceive as the goodies of modernity.