Pleasure is a Joke

            I don’t understand how anyone can live with themselves knowing that because of their failure to act millions of people are dying of starvation, sexual exploitation, and probably far worse. Saying those kinds of horrible actions will always exist no matter the time, but merely for the sole reason that mankind is evil at heart and will always corrupt, is nothing more than a dam pretext to not do anything about the situation. Are we really going to keep making the same old excuse to try and make ourselves the victims that we are too busy trying to stay alive to eat another day, and is that really the case for all? I'm not saying its right or wrong, only history will decide that, I'm just asking, how can we be so concerned with personal pleasure and actually say we enjoy it? --We are truly united by our isolation of every man for himself. We’re indirectly killing by not doing anything, not excluding myself at all. Were only pretending to "Care for the World" in order to save face among our people. For those who say they do care, there message becomes escape into a fantasy.

            We have a unique ability, the power to go ubiquitously cold, meaning our minds can turn off human compassion in order to spare ourselves the agony of dealing with the misery of others, which we avoid as if it were contagious. Not really realizing we are beyond contaminated. It’s not who is narcissistic? But who are the people who are able to mask it the best in order to get ahead in the world. The poor are suffering in a black hole of misery, and the middle class are not far behind, what are the rich doing? Their absolute best at trying to teach us how to take advantage of those who have fallen in order to amount to voracious quantities of money, and claiming the unjust as just, as some insolently made up law of nature. However, probably knowing better than anyone, that we have already all fallen as the human race, that’s what helps them sleep at night. Simply knowing that everything is maliciously corrupted, so adding their personal touch makes no difference in their mind.

            Were living in absolute fantasy, and what is unpleasant is dealt with great aversion and quickly eradicated from our feeble minds. Even after reading this, won’t we all go back to watching movies, reading magazines, drinking at some bar, eating cake, drinking our little coffees, pretend to have an intellectual conversation about your favorite bands, most likely check your friends latest facebook update. After which we will justify our pleasure, by foolishly pretending to help the unfortunate, with what a couple of dollars here and there. Saying I give and gave what I could, inhuman is what we are, knowing dam well we could have given way more. What I’m talking about is not money! Because we have to break the spell and realize money is worthless, so how can we fix the world with nothing. It’s like throwing pebbles into the ocean to try and change the currents, even if we throw boulders at most only our coastlines will be effected. I strongly hope most of you know these are analogies and metaphors as they will be. When fixing a house we don’t simply buy a new door knob, we have to remember about the foundation. Give someone five million dollars it doesn’t mean they will get any smarter, if anything they will be in danger of being converted into the malevolently rich. Now I’m not saying I’m the guy who’s going to save the world, because if were realistic it probably won’t happen until the next five to ten thousand years. One thing’s for sure I’m not going to falter in the face of adversity! Money is what got us in to this inhuman problem in the first place, so it sure isn’t going to hold the key were looking for, the foundation is my solution for the moment being. Its despicable thinking that many already knew this, but chose to ignore or forget, were not going to fix the world with dollar bills, we have to change the mindsets of the people. A true benevolent mind set is the key. However, for now this is the limit of my solution, for I cannot even begin to imagine how we will change the minds of every single person in the world, so that they will earnestly care for one another. Oh! And by the way, for my entire fellow narcissist out there, this is going to hurt, but you love yourself so much and only care about your happiness because you actually hate yourself. You hate yourself so much and feel so worthless a human being that you make it your goal in life to put yourself on the highest pedestal possible above all the others to try and pretend that your existence is actually worth living……Sometimes the truth must be said, there is no such thing as the greatest, think about it, what is really the “Greatest” your inability to find an answer is because there isn’t one. There is only All of us.

Why Balance Between Reality and Illusion Is Important

The epitome of art in contemporary illusionistic consumer based America has come down to a faltering ability to distinguish between reality and illusion, ultimately and ironically, we are in an unprecedentedly unknown battle against “Balance”. If you are a hypersensitive molecule of a human being who cannot take a single ounce of criticism, you as we all have become a victim of our own rage which inhibits mental movement and flexibly, hindering our abilities to seek an understanding. We all have concepts and almost absolute notions between what’s real and an illusion in our minds, I know it’s going to sound strange, but our perception of reality should not stem from the individual, rather be seen as the collective reality within the mind of our society. For the, mere reasoning that the “Individual” is nothing more than an illusion, rendering most of  his perceptions of reality a falsification, “what the heck is this fool talking about I’m no “Illusion”, and how does this relate to art?” Inevitably in order to understand, we must first use the mind of society to distinguish between the eclectic definition of reality as truth, and “Illusion” as lies.

Reality is truth, and truth is what is real. If this idea can be grasped then you will no longer perceive “abstract” paintings instead you will be able to recognize reality when you see it. For the concept of “abstract” has long been defined as something that is unrecognizable. However, the truth in “abstract” paintings like De Kooning’s, Pollock’s, and Rothko’s is inextricable, but in order to know, one must be aware of the definition of “Illusion”. Illusions are imitations and false trickery essentially lies. Meaning a painting that is trying to heavily imitating the real world is unfortunately bogged down with the element of Illusion, which is more commonly seen in classically traditional works of the Salon as it was prominent during the impressionist era. In the short run abstract works were a revolt against illusionistic paintings; yet do not eradicate from my words a claim to only paint in terms of truth. We must not abrogate balance in our creations of illusions and truth’s, for if you are riding a bike leaning only on one side, you will suffer a horrible crash.

It’s natural that in art we have turned to elements of illusion for thousands of years, the reason being our primary source of pleasure is derivative of illusion. For example, when looking at the skin of a beautiful woman once touched it tends to lose its effect, however before you touch the skin you fantasize ever so tragically about textures and feels it might posses. Meaning having touched the skin of a beautiful woman a physical reality sinks in as opposed to the infinitely imaginative. Other forms of common infantile fantasy based pleasure are photographs, movies, advertisements, magazines, ect. We must ensure that illusions do not replace real life experiences for we are a culture obsessed with the pleasures of illusion, our voracious appetite for fantasy will surely unbalance the existence of mankind. Anyone who knows and can see truth finds all the amusements accepted by this society unbearable.

If you are lost in a forest, how will you get out? Look at the stars, tree patterns, rivers, or desperately try to get a signal on your I-phone? Well before you do all those things you must first be able to distinguish between your left and right side that is called “Balance”. Balance is a truth that exigently demands to be kept within and outside the human body and mind. With that idea must come the acceptance of our limitations in terms of perception, for we only perceive the world through the human eyes. It must be known that everything we see is a real-illusion containing one or more of each element. Case and point, a glass of water with a pen inside, when looking through the glass the pen is distorted, that is the real-illusion. In terms of painting line is a real-illusion, but more of an illusion for it is not seen in nature, in nature line is created through the unification of blocks of color. Everything perceived through are vision essentially is a real-illusion. Even a metal table, we perceive a solid object that occupies space, but in reality there are billions of atoms united for the time being that take the form of a table, however we perceive the table through human perception not microscopic perception, making that table a true table to us as a society. There is also the problem, of wanting truth and being given truth but not being able to recognize it, for we have only seen glimpses.