Taunt no man with his misfortune
for fate is common to all and the future is a
thing unseen.
Isocrates
At the dawn of our brave new world humans stand
proud, untouchable and magnificent in their prosperity and cultural evolution.
Dazzled by their own achievements and the
blinding screen images, they are ceaselessly building the Tower of Babel while
sinking into oblivion. One disordered cabinet of wonders or non-wonders, a
digital Babel of fragmented knowledge, an incongruous pile of information,
images and disintegrated ideas. If the scaffolding collapses on their remnants,
they will continue building upon as doing for centuries now. They will continue
building upon corpses.
A civilization is emerging through group
burials, hostage torture, violence, ghetto formation and oppression; a
civilization that deifies wealth, tolerates and reproduces inequality,
discrimination and racism. While camps stench hasn’t faded away yet, new
crematoriums are being built, scentless by superior technology.
The longing and struggle for creating a society
of knowledge and spirit, equal rights, respect and freedom rapidly vanish
before our very eyes.
Nowadays people are continually exposed to
their own virtual Wunderkammern. These are being composed by people’s
occasional stream of thoughts and semi-guided by search engines foresight.
Civilizations worldwide build up their profiles upon the valid and the invalid
system supported knowledge, upon the propagandas of their times. The agony of a
global merging is urging societies towards the question of conquering. It’s a
way to save one’s identity.
Classifying species, artifacts and knowledge in
Renaissance Europe had begun as an attempt to see through the world and the
mysteries of life. When discovering visible or hidden similarities among
civilizations, people are brought to a deeper understanding of their
surroundings. They are trying to conceive the inconceivable, the violence and
the punishment, the insignificancy and the vulnerability of life; rising up
from the past as today’s new regularities.
Until the leading masses in politics, economics
and culture realize their relation to the rest of humanity, future curiosity
cabinets will be subject to expressions of a uniform common consciousness.
Babis Venetopoulos 2016
