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I don't really care about politics, at least current politics. Because what I know is that I fear for this century, I hope humanity will survive but I'm not sure. Everything is going too fast. And now you just have to look through your window to see that there are very, very big problems now... maybe too big.
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bellissima...posso chiederti k armatura è,in particolare il torso ? (se presente su nexus)
tu sei uno dei miei artisti preferiti quind l'onore è tutto ,mio
Brilliant work, bravo
So why is that? I think you cover that with Niobe - people are afraid of the cost of freedom, of anarchy, of revolution. I suppose everyone has their breaking point - you see that in history and modern day when a revolution occurs - but as long as the masses have a few breadcrumbs - religion, simple comforts, a dream for a better future (that may never come) - it keeps many quiet.
Yet there is a need for leadership of some sort - blind anarchy isn't going to achieve anything. Society needs some structure, some order out of the chaos. Hard to find the right leaders though - those perhaps like Tullius as Niobe points out has some virtues. Not that preserving the empire is right ... but at the same time what is the alternative?
What do you see will happen from the revolution of Xolhia if it succeeds? The world destroyed by Dagon ... and then from that something new is made ... who will lead it? If society gets too big how can everyone lead it? How do you get past human nature - those traits that create a lack of desire to see beyond ones own surivival and the survival of their "clan" - that group of people around them that they value. A small community might come together ... but an entire country of millions? How do you rule that? A republic? You still end up with a sub-group of people who have "power" over the rest and power tends to corrupt.
Who is truly right in the end? Niobe - seeking to put a just and virtuous leader back in control of the Empire? Or Xolhia who wishes to destroy the empire and replace it with what? Pure anarchy and chaos? Which is better?
A thought provoking post my friend and wonderful images. I know what thing that hinders my involvement in politics is manifold: a feeling that it is useless, overwhelming, that nothing I can do will matter; Another is a belief in what to fight for - a cause and group that I feel can make change. I have this feeling of being on a run-away train and just waiting for the wreck ... and then pick up the pieces afterwards. I do what I can locally, for the community, where I feel I can see some effect, create some small change for a few people ... but the world at large is overwhelming in its complexity and a general feeling of hopelessness.
Probably why I retreat into my fantasies about living close to nature like many ingenious tribes did before technology.
The argument of Niobe, is seductive, but also plays on an assumption, much in vogue today, the so-called "TINA" (There Is No Alternative). But is this true? Truly the alternative is between Napoleon and chaos?
Xolhia would say that the game is rigged because it claims that there are only two cards, when in fact it is the rest of the deck to have been hidden. Hidden to prevent it from being caught another card, which can also be disastrous, but it is not said that it is.
Who is truly right in the end? Niobe - seeking to put a just and virtuous leader back in control of the Empire? Or Xolhia who wishes to destroy the empire and replace it with what? Pure anarchy and chaos? Which is better?
Put in this form becomes a clear rhetorical question. Niobe uses this argument, but it is highly questionable.
1) There is no evidence that Tullius can become a just and virtuous emperor. He is not right because it does not grant to Ulfric even a legal process. Also I would look for a man rather mature, at the mercy of a very young, smart and capricious lover. The problem is not so much that Niobe is his stepdaughter, the problem is that she is deciding the fate of an empire. The question also moves: Niobe will be a just and virtuous empress?
2) Replace the empire with a republic is certainly not throw it into chaos. I note that during the crisis of Oblivion, and after. the government has been managed by the Council under the leadership of Chancellor Ocato. If thalmors did kill Ocato, it definitely say that this management policy worked.
4) Xolhia ... anarchist ?! Raised in an orphanage military, brillant military career, officer and soldier of utmost integrity. Xolhia has a vision of society extremely organized, where the individual finds its meaning only within the social collective. The political model of Xolhia oscillates between the Platonic republic and communism, but is by no means a supporter of anarchy. But still she is reasonable, does not think that the revolution should be carried out in one fell swoop, but it is a historical process necessary, that the revolutionary has the task of facilitating.
Sure Xolhia, interprets Dagon completely in its own way. Certainly, fears of Niobe are founded. But the truth that his teacher, reinvents Dagon again. She turns a Daedra reactionary and conservative, whose sole purpose is obsessive put the mundus in its place inside the oblivion, in a god Atheist, who commands the freedom and creation.
But the question is more virulent, is this, that the thesis of Niobe in our historical epoch seems to have completely triumphed. If Kant saw the Enlightenment as the output out of the minority in which humanity had confined from itself, the discourse next leads to the triumph of '"Last Man" what in philosophical jargon refers to as the human average that does its childishness a flag. who has renounced any ideal of emancipation to embrace the misery of their small hedonistic happiness and bourgeois.
Life is no longer lived, but simply is consumed. Aspirations, by their nature, vertical, are completely replaced by the ambitions sadly horizontal.
our background is now the general rejection of the political dimension, the renunciation of the participation of a generation like ours, fully post-modern, deprived of the great historical narrations, which has no future because trapped in an eternal present, in a world that changes technologically more and more quickly, while what remains unchanged is the meaninglessness of everything, while you have the feeling that the time it closes like a umbrello. And always the eternal question: what to do?
Xolhia lives in a pre-capitalist world, certainly easier where his Enlightenment still has all the charge, and above resting on a metaphysical conception of history as a necessary process and spiraling upward, towards its fulfillment, a paradise on earth. Instead, we are immersed in nihilism, and in a crisis emerged after the end in the belief in progress. The word revolution is a term used continuously, but always inappropriately, why more drenched in alienation. Innovations are always acting on us from the outside, which certainly open, glimmers of historical rupture, but that we are almost never able to take advantage not only because they are often too quick, but because we have been produced from birth to be passive and skeptics, but mostly unable to imagine other possible worlds. For this revolution is now a content that only finds a space in the fantasy genre.
The revolution is instead an active dimension, a permanent status of the self, which is opposed to the commandments of the ideological power. Xolhia has absolute faith and steadfast in the power of life, to go beyond itself, a difficult and painful process, and that as you will come to understand, is not at all guaranteed by an established historical destiny, but it is a possibility. This discovery, somewhat devastating, truth will be read of her, as the moral sense of human life, in his Atheism gods, must fall, to leave the individual alone to determine himself and his destiny.
The last of god of Xolhia, is not Dagon, but History. Downed this last idol, Xolhia can finally fulfill his destiny, to mantle Dagon and take his place. Xolhia will become the new daedra of revolution. The Aedras born and die, but the daedra can only be banned. This is why the free spirit and revolutionary will again emerge to break the leaden sky dropped by the power to hide the bright sun shining outside of time, illuminating and giving meaning to every moment.
which is stunningly beautiful