Hic Est Tempus Maioris Metus by Mondwin

2D • Fantasy • posted on Aug 17, 2016

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English translation (approximately) of latin title: of This is the time f great fear. 1989, fall ot the Berlin's wall. 1991, dissolution of Soviet Union. The Cold War ended! A new era of peace and prosperity began... or not? Is it only impression of mine or something gone wrong? The younger generations, born after that age, cannot understand and they join this world as it is, as ordinary and normal. Unfortunately many promises have been betrayed. The new era of peace and prosperity never arrived. Ironically, as often happens in history, the new era is, as possible, much worse and more dangerous than the previous. A friend of mine, who is a physicist, told me the the one represented in the image above is a thermonuclear (hydogen bomb or H-Bomb) explosion. Probably it is one of the image of the Tsar Bomb, the Western nickname for the Soviet RDS-220 hydrogen bomb, the most powerful nuclear weapon ever detonated, tested on October 30, 1961. Estimated over 50 megatons yeld (over 3,000 times Hiroshima's A-Bomb); remains the most powerful man-made explosion known in human history (for more details see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tsar_Bomba). I'm not interested in strategic issues and nuclear weapons themselves. The main issue is another: the crazy world of Cold War was, after all, safest than the world of today. Ironic... isn't it? My friend physist, who knows many things behind the scenes, told me that the thermonuclear global war would never occurred (and this is a fact!), because in those days there was real fear. Alcohol, drugs and more there were too, but not like today, in ALL areas and levels of society. At the time, the fear and a little common sense prevented the catastrophe, but today who can guarantee? You can really believe in leaders today? Politicians who change their minds (and political direction) at any time. And they are often unable to solve problems, rather they creates more ... but what we elect them to do? Financial speculators who flaunt omnipotence and invincibility, playing (because this is the real term to use) on financial markets destroying the real economy (on this regard I recommend you read this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-frequency_trading). All this permitted by international institutions that none of us has elected. Why do we let him go? Democracy? What democracy? We vote but then another is decided and did it anyway. And there is always a justification for this (economic crisis, terrorism, etc.). Faces changing but oligarchies are always there, ever richer and everyone else poorer. Someone once said, in the world there are resources for all but not for everyone's greed. During the Cold War there were international rules, questionable if you want, but at least they were clear and not continuously changing. Today the nations leave projects and historical paths, difficult but progressive, in favor of falsely patriotic opportunism. Everyone wants to do as they like. It is convenient to leave the trouble to others after creating them with foolish choices. Human being has personal and global limitations. I found reasonable to try to overcome our limitations. Otherwise I think is insane to overcome natural limit. Is it acceptable that so many people want to take the role of God? I don't think so! The megalomania, sense of invincibility and omnipotence of many peoples is really dangerous, today more than the past days. During the Cold War the possibility that there was a real nuclear war was quite low. I repeat: fear and common sense have always prevailed. We would not be here talking about, otherwise. Today the story is another. Today no one can guarantee anything. They have lost credibility and authority. So many words, but also a lot of manifest inability ... or maybe I have to think of a crime will? People who hold our lives are stupid or criminals? The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse. All of us have, intentionally or not, participated in this madness. We have degraded the world we live in and we are destroying what little civilization we had hardly built. And yet we can not stop us. What I've shown in Figure I thought I left behind, instead today I see it in front of our path. Is it the goal of mad rush our contemporary society? What will we leave to our children? Our grandchildren will never come into the world? And what world? All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing. Please, continue to do nothing. Our children will thank us!

Comments (170)

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SF-Design

8:37AM | Fri, 26 August 2016

great work

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olgabrattebe

10:27AM | Sun, 28 August 2016

Wonderful scene)) Well done))

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oddment

1:29PM | Sun, 28 August 2016

... and this is why I render silly cartoons.

All of the hate, and greed, need to stop. This year's presidential election is an insult to the integrity of our nation - and the whole world sees it.

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nefertiabet

1:35PM | Mon, 29 August 2016

Very thought-provoking words !!! Hopefully it succeeds in the world and the policy to make the environment and the people again reasonable!!!

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Artformz2

1:33PM | Tue, 30 August 2016

Wonderful art and story.

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alfhak712

1:45AM | Wed, 31 August 2016

Great image and excellent work! Lovely colours as well and idea!

Sometimes I wonder myself what happened with people and world! The world going crazy and what was important for people in the past seems not be so important any more! We waste time and resources on things that not important any more!

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midnight_stories

9:02AM | Wed, 31 August 2016

Mind Blowing !!!

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kftate

6:31PM | Thu, 01 September 2016

Truly beautiful image and excellent composition. Outstanding work!

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jeffy3ds

8:17AM | Fri, 02 September 2016

fantastic!!!

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bucyjoe

3:39PM | Fri, 02 September 2016

I can tell you are a deep person. I think making fun of people that are right is an effective weapon. Consider north Korea. We are taught they are crazy, but are they?

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anitalee

11:54PM | Fri, 02 September 2016

Cool

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nelmi

7:41AM | Sun, 04 September 2016

Very thoughtful image and I loved the writing that accompanied it. It is true. We live in a sad world where politicians are fickle and strings are pulled when needed. Always with conditions attached. May we learn to live in peace and to vuild a better world for the generations to come.

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crender Online Now!

7:46AM | Tue, 06 September 2016

Absolutely a beautiful image

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SalemRose

9:23AM | Wed, 07 September 2016

Great image, and I agree with your words.

steve2

12:57AM | Thu, 08 September 2016

Great image and writing

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helanker

10:17AM | Fri, 09 September 2016

Fantastic creation and strong words too.

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Leilana

3:56PM | Fri, 09 September 2016

Such a very good image! :) Have a nice weekend my friend!!

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GOLDILOCKSUK

6:21PM | Sat, 10 September 2016

Beautifully created love it! Cathy xoxoxo

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junge1

6:26PM | Sun, 11 September 2016

Amen to everything you expressed!

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Artienne

11:37PM | Mon, 12 September 2016

Fantastic render, great idea and well done!

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aubedo

10:50AM | Wed, 14 September 2016

Schade, daß ich erst so spät einen Blick in Deine Galerie geworfen habe... Dein Begleittext zum Bild vom August diesen Jahres... Oh nein... Das Gefühl, daß da etwas falsch läuft, das trügt Dich nicht... Nun kann man trefflich darüber streiten... Was die beste aller möglichen Welten ist. Ich zum Beispiel... Bin in einem sozialistischen Land geboren und aufgewachsen... Und muß nun in einer westlichen Demokratie leben. Was ich gar nicht gewollt habe. Trotz aller Fehler, die mein Heimatland hatte ( auch ich habe mitunter unschöne Erlebnisse gehabt) - es war meine Heimat, die entwicklungsfähig gewesen wäre. Die ich jetzt nicht mehr wiedererkenne. Mein Vergleich der Systeme - fällt nicht zugunsten des Westens aus. Denn - 'Demokratie' ist nur eine Fassade, ein Überbau über der wahren Basis der Gesellschaft, der Ökonomie. Und wenn also Produktion und Gewinn nicht allen zu Gute kommen, dann ist das Ganze nicht wirklich demokratisch... Wenn es ginge... Wäre die Idee von Kurd Lasswitz ( ein deutscher Kollege von Jules Verne), niedergelegt in 'Auf zwei Planeten' vielleicht ein Ausweg. Ansonsten - ist der Weg zwangsläufig der in den Untergang. Stichwort Industrie 4.0, Gentechnik 2.0. Dahinter verbergen sich Philosophien, vor denen schon in Huxleys 'Schöne Neue Welt', Herbert Werner Frankes 'Ypsilon Minus' / 'Auf der Suche nach Angelo' , John Brunner 'Die Plätze der Stadt' / 'Schafe blicken auf' / 'Morgenwelt' / 'Schockwellenreite' u. a. Werken gewarnt wurde... Aber leider... Werden die Menschen nicht wach. Klar, Hollywood u. Co. hat sie ja praktisch dran gewöhnt... Regt sich eigentlich jemand über 'Die Tribute von Panem', 'Mace Runner' oder 'The 100' auf? Nein! Man findet es toll! Leute - das könnte unsere nächste Zukunft sein. Allernächste... Dabei könnte... Wohlgemerkt - könnte... Die neue Technologie tatsächlich, nun nicht gerade das Schlaraffenland, oder Paradies auf Erden schaffen... Aber zumindest ein erträgliches Auskommen für jedermann. Puh... Da gibt es aber keine Unterschiede mehr... Wo man sich über andere erheben und sich so besser fühlen darf... Das geht natürlich nicht... Soetwas denken ja auch nur böse Kommunisten... Oder unverbesserliche Sozialromantiker... Übrigens... Was die Sache mit der Zar-Bombe betrifft... Sie ist der stärkste bekannt gewordene Test einer nuklearen Waffentechnologie... Läsion und Fusion sind aber nicht alle Rezepte aus der Hexenküche der modernen Physik... Da wäre da noch die Sache mit der Antimaterie... Genügend Energie... Genügend große Teilchenbeschleuniger... Und eine kontinuierlicher Betrieb dieser Technik über Jahre... Wer weiß wieviel davon schon in den Arsenalen dieser Welt schlummert... Dagegen wäre die Zar wie ein Zündplättchen neben einem China-Böller... Oder Nanosysteme, die Kristallgitterstrukturen auflösen und dabei die Bindungsenergien freisetzen... Sozusagen ein nuklearer Krebs... A pro pos Krebs... Wenn Gewebe unkontrolliert wuchert, nenn ein guter Arzt es Krebs und schneidet die Geschwulst heraus... Was bitte schön, ist Wirtschaftswachstum ohne Sinn anderes als gesellschaftlicher Krebs? Wo bleibt der Arzt? Also... Denn - auf eine schöne, liberalistisch-marktwirtschaftliche Zukunft... Wenn jemand kann, dann soll er mich vom Gegenteil überzeugen... Aber kommt mir nicht mit dem hohlen Freiheitspathos... Reisefreiheit... Ist nicht alles. Die eigentliche Freiheit ist doch wohl, ein Leben ohne Existenzangst führen zu können. Und darauf aufbauend weitere Freiheiten zu schaffen, wobei man natürlich eine Balance finden muß.

Pity I'm so late glancing in your gallery ... Your text accompanying the image by August of this year ... Oh no ... The feeling that something is wrong, that you are not deceptive ... Now you can excellently argue about ... What is the best of all possible worlds. I was born, for example ... Are in a socialist country and raised ... And must now live in a Western democracy. What I did not want. Despite all the mistakes that had my home country (also I have sometimes had unpleasant experiences) - it was my home, that would have been viable. The I no longer recognize again now. My comparison of the systems - does not fall from favor of the West. Because - 'democracy' is only a facade, a superstructure over the true basis of society, the economy. And if so production and profits not all come to good, then the whole thing is not truly democratic ... If it was ... If the idea of Kurd Lasswitz (a German colleague of Jules Verne), laid down in 'on two planets' might be a way out. Otherwise - the path is inevitably to ruin. Keywords Industry 4.0, Genetic Engineering 2.0. Behind it philosophies facing 'Brave New World' already in Huxley, Herbert Werner Franke 'Ypsilon minus' / 'Looking for Angelo', John Brunner 'The courts of the city' / 'Sheeps look up' / 'Morning world' / 'Shockwave Rider 'among others works was warned ... But unfortunately ... Will people not awake. Sure, Hollywood u. Co. has practically used to it ... Excites actually someone on 'The Hunger Games', 'Mace Runner' or 'The 100' on? No! We find it great! People - this could be our next future. Very next ... It could ... Mind you - could ... The new technology actually, not exactly the land of plenty, or paradise on earth create ... But at least a tolerable living for everyone. Phew ... But there are no more differences ... Where to rise above others and may feel better ... This is of course not ... Something like that think also only evil communists ... Or incorrigible social romanticists ... By the way ... As for the matter of the Tzar bomb ... It is the strongest become known test of nuclear weapons technology ... But lesion and fusion are not all recipes from the witch's kitchen of modern physics ... Because there's the matter with antimatter ... Enough energy ... Enough large particle accelerators ... And a continuous operation of this technique for years ... Who knows how much of it already in the arsenals of the world slumbers ... In contrast, the Czar would like a percussion caps next to a China firecrackers .. . Or nanosystems, dissolve the crystal lattice structures, releasing the binding energies ... It's like a nuclear cancer ... A pro pos cancer ... When tissue uncontrollably rampant, a good doctor call it cancer, cutting out the tumor ... Please what others as social cancer, is economic growth is without sense? So ... Welcome into a beautiful, liberal-market economic future ... If anyone can, let him convince me otherwise .. But Ido not come with the hollow pathos of freedom ... Freedom to travel ... Is not everything. The real freedom is surely to be able to lead a life without existential fear. And on this basis more freedom to create, where you have to find a balance, of course.

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