As much as I'd like to agree with what you say, what Darwin discovered is a necessity. If no one stepped on anyone else, if no one ever got hurt, the world could not continue. Nature is chaotic, both good and evil and neither at the same time. Man is a part of that nature--we can not help what comes naturally to us. If I was never taught that killing another being was 'wrong', I would kill for what I wanted without conscience. It is man that created this idea of good and evil; greed is a natural constant. If man had no ego, he could not have conscious thought. One comes with the other, for as man realizes he can think in ways animals can't, he developes an ego. Alexander Pope said it best:

"Better for us, perhaps, it might appear,
Were there all harmony, all virtue here;
That never air or ocean felt the wind;
That never passion discompos'd the mind.
But ALL subsists by elemental strife;
And passions are the elements of life.
The gen'ral order, since the whole began,
Is kept in nature, and is kept in man."

This isn't to say that you aren't absolutely right about the state of the world, these days, but nothing has really changed. People have always been greedy and horrible. I agree, though, that sometimes the world could use a little more compassion. Excellent work, as always; very thought provoking.

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you're right on a certain point, but that's not only what I wanted to express with this picture.

My point here is teh self-destruction. Humans would consume every little part of themself to please their greed, and that's nothing progressive anymore. And that's also a big part of what makes the difference between human and animal.

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True... but many animals would do the same, had they the means. Not that I'm saying humans aren't terrible.

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can we really know?

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Nice sentiment. I do think that we humans like to live by that cruel and inhumane way. But before I talk about the piece I'd like to make a minor complaint: Darwin did not create this paradigm, he only codified it into his scientific theories. Naming this after him -- although that may not be your intention -- seems a bit like shooting the messenger. Some may interpret it this way.

The piece I found interesting in my own way, with my own views on what is debasing for a human being. I don't know very much about the visual arts, but I do see a very vivid metaphor in this picture for many of the debasing elements of our own society. Yes, we are descended from animals. We have evolved from them. But in the end we ought to try to do better? Maybe I see it differently, but I do see it as anti-materialistic.

What we need to do is make it more advntageous to be a good guy, which wont happen. But at least there is a way, in a way. Even so, some people are unselfish, or whatever you want to call it. The majority is pathetic, but no one is forced to be part of it. You make the choice of what kind of person you want to be.

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i see a personal world..your figures are personal and /i believe/ you are improving and have magnificient thoughts in your head, what im gonna say is that do not stop painting, 'cause the beatiful artistic spirit may go advanced enough? sorry if it's not

Social darwinism is to what you're relating i believe. The official term, I'd ad the definition to the deviation.

Awww - so nice.
Well done!

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