Day 41

The revolution will not be computerized

Looking at the great revolutions in the world, technology was almost never the key factor used to overpower the current regimes.

Usually, the greatest power controls the greatest amount of resources, allowing for the exploration of technology as a way to foster and strengthen the regime.

Even if those that actually do the work of coming up with technological advances, exploring the limits of what's possible, try to use their own gifts or positions to trump the system, the overall social infrastructure won't allow them to do so. It will give them a mere illusion that things are moving forward, when, in fact, they are not.

Like the court in Kafka's Trial, this invisible, inaccessible entity, will keep exerting its power over them.

So no, technology is not the key to bringing the kind of revolution we need to get to a Modern Golden Age.

What we need is something indomitable, unpredictable and irreverent.

What we need is something harmonious, beautiful and magnanimous.

What we need is Art.

Art, in its various forms, is what allows for these seemingly opposite sides to meet, creating an indomitable harmony, unpredictable beauty and magnanimous irreverence.

Art is what allows for deep transformation, originating outside of the confines of any infrastructure.

The revolution will be an artistic one.

Joseph Beuys, a german artist, coined the term "Social Sculpture". It embodies his belief that art can transform society; that everything in life can be seen as Art and be approached in an artistic way (melting those 2 opposite sides into 1).

Social Sculpture includes human activity that strives to shape society, transforming the social sculptor into an artist creating structures through language, thoughts and actions.

The revolution is going to be an Artistic one and, right now, we're on the lookout for more artists.

Can we count on you?