Rupture

Art is meant to be a rupture, a violent departure from conventional, a rebellious stand against the world order. 

It is the agony, the sorrow, the pain, the darkness, the sarcasm, the arrogance, the intensity, the insult, the drama, the madness make the Art. Everything else is trash.

Art is not for fainthearted, for those who do not dare to face their inner world, not for whom constantly escape from hell within.  

Success

I think, anxiety from “fear of failure” must be embedded in our DNA like every other animal species.

Little has changed since our ancestors walked across the savannah under scourging heat, searching for food and threatened by wild animals.

Today everything from our education systems to business systems leverage the same anxiety.

At school we are constantly exposed to tests utilising our primordial fear. Success is cherished, failure is demonised. Obedient individuals are programmed to contribute to the overall success of the larger group they belong to.

It is only until recently with the rise of startup culture, failure was made welcoming and become important part of development process; the idea is to learn from mistakes in organised fashion. Alas this is an illusion.

At the end of several fail-improve cycles, the business may come to an abrupt end when it runs out of fuel. Some say 90% of tech start-ups doom to fail.

In other words, it is important to differentiate failure as a useful business process, as opposed to failure as business, the latter is unfortunately akin to returning empty handed from hunting.

So where does this leave us at?

As we get older we begin to realise other important facts of life; time is getting scarcer, we are not getting any healthier, and our hormones (including the ones that drive anxiety) get weaker.

With anti-anxiety, anti-cholesterol, and anti-high blood pressure pills on the table, suddenly it may occur to us “what the hell have I been doing to myself all this time? Fuck success!”, and this is, dear friends, my definition of “maturity”.
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Journey

Art is an individual journey. Like every journey it has a beginning, a flow, and an end. If there is no journey there is no Art.

Each piece in your Art should tell a story stitched to a different piece. Each piece should be meaningful in its own as well as when stitched together.

Art

It is what we eliminate makes Art, not what we add.

The Purpose

Finding Purpose in a purposeless Universe
(a frequently asked question to Atheists)

It is a beautiful thing, purposeless Universe. Looking at workings of my hand, rivers of blue veins on its surface, decorated by sun spots, fearlessly dancing on my laptop computer, and knowing there is no need to be any purpose whatsoever behind why I am here and why I am capable of constructing complex sequences of information using another machine.

I am here and I am capable as such, because I am a biological machine that its clockworks survived a mindless process called Evolution by Natural Selection, a process which has absolutely no intelligence, no purposeful rules whatsoever.

It is not just beautiful, it is startlingly beautiful, an insight only few of us can have.

Beautiful, because it is so simple.

All you require is to apply laws of Physics and conditions sufficient to construct things at any moment in time, say now. Extrapolate and test the same laws under different conditions back in time, supported by evidence such as fossils and strata, until you reach to a point where you find a single cell organism that could make copies of itself.

Not knowing how the first single cell organism came about does not prove there was a purpose then, as we know so little about the conditions that led to it. So rather than embracing an implausible exception to a theory that worked so well for so long, we can safely assume that there was a point in time when conditions were sufficient for the first single cell organism to come about using the same laws of Physics.

Purpose implies subjective intent, a human construct. There is not a single Physics law in this Universe that implies intent. It is pointless to search for a grand purpose beyond the realm of human intent. It is also pointless to talk about ordinary, personal purposes such as finishing university, or winning an Olympic medal, as clearly this is not meant by the original question.

Atheism is not an ideological stance, but rather a natural conclusion derived from humble recognition of a purposeless Universe.

There is nothing I feel obliged to explain the state of my thoughts ideologically. Atheism argument is not even strictly necessary, other than making it easier for Theists to begin their argumentation process, which I don’t mind aiding.

I am happy and content as I could fully focus on living my life, a fluke in the sea of destiny, devoid of any philosophical baggage let alone a grand purpose.