Myopic Mastermind - Limited Edition of 10 (2 sold) Artwork

MYOPIC MASTERMIND https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gzso7zTWTo0 Myopic Mastermind is a metaphor of the schizophrenic condition of human intelligence. For thousands of years, nature has formed our genetic code, and our brain with it, according to the only law it knows: the survival of the fittest. The disastrous result of its single-edged intervention is an asymmetric human mind with an aggressively overdeveloped technical competence - at the expense of ethics, empathy, community feeling and social intelligence. On the one hand, we are able to fly to Mars, to perform complex medical operations and to construct skyscrapers, bridges and any amount of lethal weapons. On the other hand, we are unable to master even our most basic instincts, to construct a solid and peaceful society, to control nature without destroying our planet and to outgrow our murderous racial and typal prejudices. In fine, we seem to be wholly incapable to consistently put our technical intelligence to intelligent, that is to constructive use. Besides the obvious social cataclysm already in evidence all over the world, this disparity may well prove the main difficulty in the merging of biological and artificial intelligence. Given the nano-technical means, it will doubtlessly be possible to expand our cognitive intelligence beyond natural human limits. But this operation might at the same time increase the gulf between technical and what we may call evolutionary intelligence - the capacity to use our trained knowledge to better the conditions of life on our planet - and leave us with even more highly educated and particularly destructive psychopaths. By ignoring its moral priorities (or worse, leaving them in the hands of superstitious fools and their criminal « Gods »), humanity is heading straight for collective suicide. It’s high time that the myopic masterminds that we are start having a look at what is happening under our very noses and realize that ethics are not the affaire of religion, sentimentalists, romantics and dreamers, but purely and simply an empirical necessity of human survival. As long as mankind refuses to realize that, for all our superficial sophistication, our social demeanor is still on chimpanzee level, as long as our standard education does not include ethical behaviour, as long as we are ready to follow « leaders » whose moral incompetency is perfectly known and tacitly accepted - so long humanity won’t need climatic catastrophes or asteroids to destroy our planet. We can do it all by ourselves.

Mixed Media:Digital on Paper

Artist Produced Limited Edition of:10

Size:8.3 W x 11.8 H x 0.1 D in

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