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Jake Parker came up with an idea for this #Inktober2020. He called it #Inktober52 (one drawing every week).
I want to embark in this new drawing adventure as a way to keep myself motivated and learn from the real artists. I will also be posting my drawing on Instagram and Twitter.
Here's the process:
The first prompt made me think about two very serious events happening right now. I wanted to combine the two crises on one drawing that might represent the paradox of human existence.
On the one hand, we are on the verge of global war. We have developed countries boasting and bragging about their destructive toys, investing billions of dollars a year to perfect destructive machinery, while we are unable or unwilling to develop technology to help us put off fires before they destroy people and lands.
Australia has been burning for months now and I have not still seen a massive global mobilization to help extinguish those fires.
Millions of animals have died and more die by the minute while billions of dollars are wasted every minute on human
vanity and power struggles.
My heart goes out to the people and animals who are suffering this horrendous tragedy and I wish crises like this one would teach humanity to show more solidarity and employ all the human talent and resources towards making sure this does not happen again, at least to this level.
Before we explore outer space or develop weapons capable of killing massive amounts of people in record time, should we not have technology capable of putting off fires in record time, or guaranteeing food production, or curing cancer?
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Excellent drawing, prompted by serious matters. I reTweeted your Tweet about this. :)
Although I know some people in and near Australia, and some in the military, I'm not personally effected by either big recent event so maybe its easier for me to take a bigger picture view. Definitely a tragedy with these fires, and who knows how the geopolitical situation will develop.
But I'm thinking that I recently read that big fires like this have happened before in Australia where summer temperatures can be really high. I have heard that forests and ecosystems need the occasional fire to stay healthy, long term. Like I said, I'm not affected so it's easy for me to examine the totality of the situation while acknowledging that its a major tragedy for every one effected and my heart goes out to them.
I think space exploration produces a lot of technological innovation which more than offsets its costs, many times. I've worked in this industry. Even military expenditure can have a positive side, as computers were developed in WW2 for calculating projectile paths and now are a positive thing in the world, in my opinion. I'm typing to you on one, right now. :)
Conversely, tech to push out vast quantities of water to fight floods could be used offensively to flood cities; increasing crop yields have lead to issues with pesticides; curing cancer could lead to biotech that could be weaponized. I think we have to advance in all these areas of scientific inquiry while at the same time giving great thought to what we're doing so what we create can be used mostly for good things to advance civilization and help more people than we harm. Again, not to minimize these dire situations that inspired your work, just inspired myself to think about them. And this was my random thoughts on the matter! :)
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I agree, and I appreciate your thoughtful comment.
There are usually two or more sides to each issue.
Knowing human nature, it would be too naive to asume that we can dispense with the military. Countries have the right to protect themselves, there will always be a bad guy messing up with borders and interests; but still, whatever effort that is put into destructive technology should be balanced.
It seems to me that we have not yet figured out how to protect ourselves from so many natural disasters and to deviate attention from that and invest so much money and human effort into space exploration, for instance (there are many other areas that for me are not as relevant, but that's just me being idealist), is like asuming this battle is lost, we'll lose this planet sooner than expected, so let's have another place to go (with less knowledge than we have of our current planet and probably with more distractions).
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