Radiant Daggersby Iliad Terra

a friend’s perspective…I couldn’t agree more:

“The concerns of an advertising executive centre upon novelty, immediacy of impact, and relevance to the target market. Many would say that these are the qualities that have characterised your collection. The concerns of the serious collector centre upon quality, the capacity to transcend time, high levels of skill and historical significance. To what degree do you feel these apparently divergent criteria to be in conflict?

CS: The “adman” theory is very appealing, very popular with commentators. But the snobbery of those who think an interest in art is the province of gentle souls of rarefied sensibility never fails to amuse. Heaven forfend that anyone in “trade” should enter the hallowed portals of the aesthete…”

-CS

Despite the vast potential of our intellect we have miserably failed in the quality of our lives. This dire state of moral and emotional failure of our civilization and even species is the direct result of our lives being tethered to the decaying placenta of culture and heritage.

Our capacity for growth is stymied by stifling patriarchies and outmoded attachments to the madness of the State and group identity. It seems the only salvation is through a paradigm shift in which the individual is perceived as sacred and divine. This argument is extended to the supreme patriarch and his messengers. Thou shall honor thy children!

The future must become the foundation of our identity, not the past. Our actions and choices need to define who we are, not the color of our skin or the profile of our DNA!

We are born into a context, yet for the preservation of our ego and identity we feel pride in this context that we’ve inherited. This pride we then turn viciously against other prides and create the bloodbath we call civilization.

Thus it’s with this power granted me by the virtue of life that I as an indivisible source-element of the group do hereby decree the following mandate:

It is time for the human species to evolve. It is time for the individual to own its choice. Choose to evolve.

Shit that felt good! I needed to get that off my chest!!!

-I.A.T.