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Violence and hate comes easy and fast.
“Violence/hate comes easy and fast. I think it’s only after seeing the damage it brought with it, we try to repair and correct ourselves. Then, there, comes peace and understanding, slow but steady.” Filomina Pawar.
We know how to handle rage, hate – just bang the door shut, abuse, do violent stuff not care how we leave each other/s behind and get on with our own lives. Easy. But now, here, we have to learn/find ways how to live with love because it is an overwhelming emotion. Its new and confusing experience. The trick, I think, is to pay it forward, caring, supporting, looking after, being present, when needed for each other, whoever needs it at that moment, a rippling effect throughout the world. Will that not be a Utopian dream come true?
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Utopian musings of my mind: experimental art project
Imagining the possibilities: yearning to be human.
Our (adapted) conversation: Retraining our brains.
Eric: Do you know we are not the only war waging primates? (Ref: 4 years of violent fight of Gombe chimpanzees, ‘70s.)
Filomina: Wait, just hold onto that image. Replace chimps with us (in the earliest stages of our evolution.) If the group didn’t resort to violent means but acted in a peaceful manner, don’t you think we could have evolved into better species?
E: But violence is in our nature. Can you expect a gold fish to start walking?
F: (And so is peace in our nature) No, But even when it isn’t in our nature to fly, we invented aero planes to sort of fly. Didn’t we? Only because we have (better?) brains.
E: This is real world and you are not being real.
F: Ok but this real world has too many redundant ideas which we need to either outgrow or discard. The nicer can be made real too. We just need to understand that it’s possible and then, think and behave to make it better.
We know how to handle rage, hate – just bang the door shut, abuse, do violent stuff not care how we leave each other/s behind and get on with our own lives. Easy. But now, here, we have to learn/find ways how to live with love because it is an overwhelming emotion. Its new and confusing experience. The trick, I think, is to pay it forward, caring, supporting, looking after, being present, when needed for each other, whoever needs it at that moment, a rippling effect throughout the world. Will that not be a Utopian dream come true?
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Utopian musings of my mind: experimental art project
Imagining the possibilities: yearning to be human.
Our (adapted) conversation: Retraining our brains.
Eric: Do you know we are not the only war waging primates? (Ref: 4 years of violent fight of Gombe chimpanzees, ‘70s.)
Filomina: Wait, just hold onto that image. Replace chimps with us (in the earliest stages of our evolution.) If the group didn’t resort to violent means but acted in a peaceful manner, don’t you think we could have evolved into better species?
E: But violence is in our nature. Can you expect a gold fish to start walking?
F: (And so is peace in our nature) No, But even when it isn’t in our nature to fly, we invented aero planes to sort of fly. Didn’t we? Only because we have (better?) brains.
E: This is real world and you are not being real.
F: Ok but this real world has too many redundant ideas which we need to either outgrow or discard. The nicer can be made real too. We just need to understand that it’s possible and then, think and behave to make it better.