War and art (light and dark) (creation and destruction) have come full circle:
Tuesday, October 28th, 2008
The repercussions of World War II lead to a modernistic crisis of post-human identity and a hypocritical obsession with human suffering.
The elitist nationalist that feed off humanity with war machines and cause wars are no different than the elitists posthuman modernists utopia freaks that oppose it, they both create a separatism state of class no matter how hard they try to idealistically achieve the opposite.
After 1850, the growth of industries driven by nationalist interests (which believe there is always a threat) lead to World War II. After the disillusionment of World War II smacked everyone on earth in the face with a dose of industrial actuality, there were many anti war movements coming up with all these reasons the war was bad but too cowardly to face the actual causes and actually do anything to stop it. The rise of modernism, supposedly to renounce war and unite the poor and rich classes, has done little more than create a “high modernism” elitist group of their own. The posthuman modernized elitists do not seek to control the body with the war machine, but to control the mind with images, sounds, and justifications. This highly modern elitist group, not only lead to supposedly beneficial movements like abstract expressionism and Fluxus, it also lead to the mass media, and is now the mind behind the latest war, the war for art. Artistic modernism has come full circle with its archenemy of industrial nationalism.
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