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may be in love. I have fallen for the lady who doesn’t even exist, or may have existed some hundreds or thousands years ago. While working on the third charcoal replica of one of Leonardo Da Vinci’s famous paintings, “Leda and the Sawn”, I fell for that Renaissance Playboy model, I suppose. (CLICK HERE to get Leda) But since I am pretty sure that we all are “social animals” trapped in the cages of our own ego and selfish desires, and you live on the same planet as I do – my sixth sense hints me that you aren’t a bit interested in my narcissistically artistic love story. So I am just going to leave it out of this discourse.
Nevertheless, the Da Vinci charcoal art project got me contemplating the Renaissance, and I went back further into the retrospect. What if Leonardo Da Vinci was alive today? I’d love to share with him some of my version of his artworks. Turning the knob in my time-machine further backwards – what if Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle, and even Jesus Christ were among us today (as reincarnation or something)? Would the world have been much better place to live in, philosophically and politically… or just honestly?
I hope so! But wait!! That’s just a snap judgment. This is the 21st Century, aka Digital Age (advocates of different sectors claim it as their own respective ages – Age of Business, Globalization, Advertising, Ebola… blah, blah, blah), where we are webbed in social media in such a way that we don’t even know how to shut up when we are on our own. In this context, it appears that Socrates’ and Plato’s philosophical status would be smashed into pieces by the loads of #hashtags and god-awful selfies, and some adult confessions and nonsense status updates. We can’t even afford to turn our blind eyes and deaf ears to the serious issues. We are just a bunch of cowards!
21st Century is no different from the Dark Age. (We have electricity, but that’s a different thing. Thanks to Farady and Edison.) We evolved from Democracy to Republic. That’s good, theoretically! But in practice, the situation has aggravated instead. I don’t know if it is just me that I am crazy or something, everything seems to have a corrupt genesis. And do I even need to make you aware of the defective and morbid government and leaders we have? Rulers rule in their own selfish interests rather than for the benefit and welfare of country and its people. We tagged monarchy as a tyranny. And still with democracy and ‘Republic’, we are no better off. We jumped from the frying pan into the fire. We caged the lion, and let us be ruled by filthy gang of rats. What can be annoyingly worse than that? And the rats are vying for crazy power-play among themselves.
But here’s the catch: the problem with the rat race is even if you win the race, you’re still a rat. Lily Tomlin said that, I guess!
We have a melodrama going on in this country. We aren’t going to get anything good out of it. It’s an open secret. This isn’t me being pessimistic; I am being pragmatic. We have a helpless government that is awfully devoid of morals and justice, which according to Augustine, is nothing more than a band of robbers. “If justice be taken away, what are governments but great band of robbers?” said Augustine of Hippo.
The same thing happens in our country: victims are tagged crazy when they seek justice; criminals are proposed as martyrs. God knows what’s next on their sacred manifesto!
We no longer can afford to ignore and tolerate the misconducts of these rabble-rousers, and their savage-aimless followers who are best qualified to practice their rights inhibiting our freedom, hoping that everything will be all right one day.
It won’t. We are done with these Leviathans. We need no more politicians. The country and its people will not have rest from the evils until and unless politicians are banished from the government. We need philosophers who understand the meaning of good life.
We need the 21st Century Renaissance.
©Linkinmyth 2015: 21st Century Renaissance
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