II : Mechanics and the Death of a Country

II

- Mechanics and the Death of Society -

Friday, 15:55

 

Through the years, many times I've talked with people wiser than I could ever dream of being. And in many of these dialogues, the theme of Society and the role of Arts in it always pops up. Being myself a composer,  this dialogue remains (and will remain) very important, because modern society is focusing towards a mechanized world, where the human input is less important.

From my engineering point of view (I'm an IT Engineer as well), we are living under the illusion that mechanization is the ultimate solution for all things going wrong. I'm not a caveman, but my point here is that we're forgetting that all these mechanic devices were created by humans who despite their claims of having an ultimate mind, are just as imperfect as the things or processes they are trying to fix.

How is this affecting society ?

Here in the place I live in, the president of my country has developed an education system focused on making this country a Technologic Country. It's quite a good idea, considering we're a country focused only on producing money through natural resources and little technological experimentation. The problem comes up, when the whole curriculum of education it's only considering traditional and technological careers as relevants, focusing and giving chances to people who are interested in those careers through scolarships, and then giving no chance to the people who wants to study other things, such as arts. It's true that there are places to study arts, but the problem we have here (and world-wide) is that arts have been categorized as being something for "people with finesse" only, but I am a firm believer that like anything in this world, we all were born from zero, knowing nothing about anything.

 

Mechanics also affect the way society and arts have a relationship. 

In a place obsessed with technological sophistication, arts lose their space. Technology means money, money invested, money spent, money wasted. It's no secret that we're living in a time where we could be filthy rich with just a click, and there's nothing wrong with it. But the problem comes out, when all spaces, are just focused to the mechanical aspects of society. It could be in the education field, it could be in the management field, it could be pretty much anything we have nowadays. We are obsessed with time, space, trying to find if there is a God or not, trying to satisfy our ego no matter the cost. But we have forgot, our human, perfectible and imperfect nature. Artists are afraid to speak, afraid to experiment, afraid to keep creating, afraid to study their craft. We're living in the second Dark Age. But we should Rise.

The lack of arts is the reflection of the lack of conscience in a society

Obsessed only to find a way to establish their virtual reality