Hic Est Tempus Maioris Metus
by Mondwin
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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)
chrisann
Beautiful image!
droog4474
I find the symbolic imagries in your gallery quitr intriguing. Obviously a human bring ofbgreat thought and concern. Love the work!
DukeNukem2005
Very good!
DRAKELOT
I'm late to our yearly date ... Fantastic my friend !!!
jwdell
Amazing work, and touching words! Hope you have a fantastic Christmas!!!
pit224
Fantastic work! I like it! :)
aksirp
Ah I missed this one last year! Great art and graphic composition - great words but I wonder what you want, doing nothing and waiting... sometimes ok but sometimes it needs engagement .. finally you are right that other generations are doing probably the same mistakes - and perhaps little big things better...
sossy
impressive thoughts in your text and a brilliant interpretation in this fantastic composed artwork 😊
jeroni
Splendid composition and colors my friend
Odessey
Very Nice work!
IceDragonArt
This is a gorgeous depiction of what you wrote. I know that if I could I may very well have chosen to go back to the Cold War days. People nowadays have no moral compass and many of the younger generation care only for themselves and what they can have or own to make themselves happy at any cost. Its very scary....
Faemike55
fabulous image and very interesting narrative - wonderful work
BattleHawk
Very cool! Love this piece!
marcPoser
We have lost contact with ourself, or more exactly, with our inner spirit that should makes us human. We should teach our children about the special gift that in living within us, but we have a tendency to ignore it and to be involved with distractions (entertainment, power, money, prestige, etc.). We have to listen to it, in silence with our heart, then unimaginable insight and powerful solutions might come to our mind.
I wish that every one of us will succeed in renewing contact with his own inner light.
Cyve
What a fabulous concept... Wonderfuly done my friend !!!
water
I do not think that the world is getting worse, rather, via the internet, we see immediately the chaos in parts of the world, that, in earlier times, we would only hear of years or decades later. I agree re the psychopaths in the system but the sane are not defeated. There are still a lot of honest politicians and there is a lot of green progress happening that the self centered can't stop. Beautiful work on an important theme !
MatCreator
powerful image...
Axeye
Unique and beautiful work!
portroyal
good words, great shot
water
Cool image . Do your best to be fair and, when possible, kind, and together we will push down the walls that we fear.