What I am about to write is a whole, it just looks like parts…
We have art… and what is art? Many, many definitions of art exists…
We know that art changed in nature from 1880 through 1900…
and I have surmised that Art changed beginning in 1880 because of
the industrial revolution… because of the industrial revolution,
we were atomized, fragmented… we no longer existed as part
of a whole……. the industrial revolution in conjunction with
its ism/ideology, capitalism… tore human beings from
their connection to other people, to the state, to religion…
to atomized means it separated human beings from its
connection to other human beings, connections which ranged
from religion to nationality to families…… recall that
families were being driven from farms to factories in
massive, record numbers and that changed was part of
the atomization of man…… when we live on the land, we
are connected to the earth, we are connected to the seasons,
in ways that is impossible in our modern industrialize world…
You cannot, cannot understand the modern world without understanding
this alienation of human beings from their rural, farming life that has
lasted for 10 thousand years and was being uprooted in a generation.
To atomized means to separate human beings from a life that they had
always known to being a single atom in the modern world.
Now am I glorifying the rural farming life? Not at all, I am pointed out
you cannot go home again. Am I a farmer at heart? not in the least…
I am pointing out what the results were when we transported millions
of human beings from being farmers to our modern industrial world of
nihilism and despair…
We are and will continue to be alienated and disconnected until we
finally adapt to our new found conditions.
Art…… we practice art… the ancients didn’t practice art in the way we do…
You didn’t have individuals who painted or sewed or wrote music just because
it wasn’t necessary for the average person to engage in ART in the ancient world, Why?
Because the ancient world could engage in its act of creation by the timeless act
of farming, of growing fruits and tree’s and vegetables in one’s field…….
We no longer have that luxury……. we engage in Art because we no longer
have another outlet for us to engage with……. but why is it important to
have an outlet to engage in?
We have another dualism…… we have the conscience mind
and we have another aspect of the mind, the subconscious mind…
Art comes from the subconscious mind…Art is a way to engage
the subconscious mind……. and that is why Art changed from the 1880’s
to the 1st world war……… Because the exterior of the human being changed
from a rural, farming, seasonal person to the modern factory working human being
and the subconscious mind too must adapt in the way it adapted to the world…
Art is one way, means for the subconscious mind to process the massive changes
from its prior rural existence to the modern factory life…….Art is an means to
adapt, a means to accommodate the new atomized, disconnected life we now
lead…and Art in all forms changed to acknowledge our new existence…
and Art is driven by the subconscious…….
And so what is the solution to our problem of us having a atomized, disconnected
life that we lead today? Art, art is the solution but we no longer react to Art
in the same way we once did… Art is dead… or so we are told… Art isn’t dead,
Art is trying to adjust to the new conditions of modern man and the subconscious
mind that is so important to all of us, is trying to adjust to the everchanging
conditions we find ourselves in…
and that is the new modern world, the everchanging world… for that was
one of the hallmarks of the world before 1880. The lack of change…
Caesar could have walked the streets of Paris in 1800 and he would not
have felt that out of place outside of the new “uniforms” that modern
people feel compelled to wear……. Rome of 45BC isn’t that different
than the streets of Paris in 1800… but Paris by 1900 had completely
changed… we find all the modern conveniences starting to come into play…
the world has changed more in the last 200 years more then it did in
the previous 2000 years and we must adjust and the subconscious
mind must adjust……… Thus we have the crime and serial murders
and violent attacks we see every day as a consequence of the rapid
change from the rural, farming world of 1800 to our modern world…
Our current alienation and disconnection from ourselves and each other
is from that rapid change in our historical situation…
Think of the events of the 20th century, the two world wars and the Holocaust
and the cold war… events that was impossible before 1900 and why?
Because the wars and the Holocaust were reactions to our rapidly changing
world… and Art? Art is not only thing that changed, but Art is one possible
solution to the problem of our adaptation to this everchanging world……
we must find a way to allow the subconscious mind to adapt and change, to
understand its place in the world…we are adrift because the subconscious mind
hasn’t yet come to terms with the new reality of modern times……… and we will
remain alienated and disconnected until we come to grips with the new reality,
come to grips both in the conscious AND subconsious mind…
Kropotkin