Asymmetrical Cultural Warfare
("Exploded View", 2011, original oil and acrylic)
Asymmetrical Cultural Warfare
Both people and traditional cultures value symmetry;
In humans it indicates healthy genes,
In Cultures it’s probably the same,
Indicating balanced and enduring values.
The modern world offers an exception to the rule;
A deconstruction of our nature
Into its primary components and building blocks,
But to what end?
Due to the pressure to celebrate perversity, er, I mean diversity,
Balanced faces now seem unnaturally suspect
Somehow too perfect, healthy and elite
As the average face sinks ever deeper into mutational overload.
Same for our culture, as the novel
And creatively abstract
- be it in art, political or scientific theory,
fashion, language and music -
Takes over our sensibilities
And leaves us suspect of the natural, wholesome and beautiful.
The world today is increasingly ruled by
The few deviant thought leaders
Picasso-like in their experimentation
With the art of living the everyday.
And we will know them by their mark;
Their lopsided features,
And spitefully mutant impact
On tradition.
It’s not a random thing after all,
It comes from our genes,
The ones we’ve kept from Nature’s culling
And the programs our AI now perfectly create.
(4/9/24)
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