261 New Ten Commandment

By Christopher Hitchens
Source: http://debunkingchristianity.blogspot.com/2010/03/christopher-hitchens-on-ten.html

258 Decoding Utopia

Every religion has their own version of Utopia, except Buddha with its promise to end its reincarnation cycle. Islam and Christian Utopia has a similarity in the goal, a good & holy place without any sin. But how the society can’t ever found a problem in its cycle. Every problems are created by individual and social interaction. Men has tried to manage this problem since the beginning of their ages, from imperialism, socialism, liberarism, even the most totalitarian system to every individualism created another problem. Religion use a totalism ideology, as you can see today and from history, it can’t answer to all society problem fairly. In my point of view, the idea of heaven seems vague. Even if a utopia filled with unlimited resources, the social interaction & the difference of each individual create preoblems.
The Catholics believe in purification of souls, but isn’t it making a new human as pure as the day he/she born, without the beauty of knowledge and thinking. Isn’t the heaven another world same like this one…

254 The Humanist

I do think god is cruel.
He sent a choosen people to define the path to heaven.
Through his massive power in society,
he could persuade people & break the unity of the society.
Creating hell on earth & fake utopia up ahead.
Bashing the homo in blessing from their fags loving god.
Damning the humanist as the cause of all evil.
Exploiting the society in the name of holy cause.
Each religion created their own version of Hitler as the son of God.

252 Less Enough More

Less Enough More is my simplicity principle in art and design. But more than that, it’s also my way of life and ideology. As I don’t believe in “good and bad” method of judgement, it’s too medieval way of living for me. I believe in reasoning in order to find the balance between the less and the more, or mature the mind so we can find the centre between the Left and the Right. A little bit buddish, but I am not a believer of any religion.

250 Poom – Rollercoaster

POOM – ROLLERCOASTER from POOM on Vimeo.

242 Lowest Instinct

Joseph Goebbels was exploiting the lowest instinct of German people, which are racism, xenophobia, class envy & security. He used these elements in his powerful propaganda. As a humanist Indonesian I experienced the suffering effect from the propaganda inside the country. All of the propaganda plays in religious field, it’s as effective as Nazi propaganda, they have some good oratories and the mayority of people follow religion blindy since the ancient age. The religious party alliance once crushed the indonesian communist only because of its atheism nature. So, that is the Indonesians’ lowest instinct.

235 Marxist Humanism Maturity

For liberal humanists such as Rousseau or Kant, the universal law of reason guided the way towards total emancipation from any kind of tyranny.

Such ideas did not go unchallenged. The young Karl Marx criticised the project of political emancipation (embodied in the form of human rights), asserting it to be symptomatic of the very dehumanisation it is supposed to oppose. Marx argued that because, under capitalism, egoistic individuals are constantly in conflict with one another, rights are needed to protect them from each other. True emancipation can only come through the establishment of communism, which abolishes all private property. While the mature Marx may have retained a belief in the inevitability of progress, he also became more forceful in his criticism of the concept of human rights as idealist or utopian. For the mature Marx, “humanity” is an unreal abstraction: because rights themselves are abstract, the justice and equality they protect is also abstract, permitting extreme inequalities in reality.

232 Anti Fundametalist Song

There’s a witch hunt coming, screaming out on it’s rebirth
There’s a crusade coming, Hellfires back here on earth
See the light in their eyes shine, listen to their words like swords
The Christian militia is marching now
There’s a witch hunt coming, born out of all the American fears
There’s a new purge coming, an inquisition for all of us here
Hold onto your sanity as best you can
While some Hitler claims to speak for the Son of Man
The Christian militia is marching now
Hatred makes the adrenaline flow
Stir up the fire watch it grow
Everybody loves a righteous cause
Old lives forgotten in holy wars
Everything forgotten in holy wars

There’s a nightmare coming, shut up your doors close your mind
There’s a nightmare coming – Born Again, born again blind
The girls show the way, then show us their legs
With American showbiz razzmatazz
With sex in one hand and a gun in the other, Christ returns
The right-wing respectable clampdown clan
Find their figure head in a holy man
Here come the Christians as hysterical mob
Worshipping the Devil in the name of God
Worshipping the Devil in the name of God

Christian Militia
by New Model Army

229 Social Evolution

Social evolution is a subdiscipline of evolutionary biology that is concerned with social behaviours, i.e. those that have fitness consequences for individuals other than the actor. Social behaviours can be categorized according to the fitness consequences they entail for the actor and recipient.

* Mutually beneficial – a behaviour that increases the direct fitness of both the actor and the recipient
* Selfish – a behaviour that increases the direct fitness of the actor, but the recipient suffers a loss
* Altruistic – a behaviour that increases the direct fitness of the recipient, but the actor suffers a loss
* Spiteful – a behaviour that decreases the direct fitness of both the actor and the recipient

Creating a social system is best relying on mutually beneficial factor, but it’s hardly work in any society in micro factor, only in some specific areas maybe. I never agree on Social Darwinism, a study of Herbert Spencer, which suggesting on the weak members of society can lead to the degeneration of a domestic race of the society. That theory is a selfish act, used by Hitler for holocaust propaganda. But I believe society evolve from time to time, it wants to reach the mutual benefactor, as long as humanists never prevail.

227 Creating A Society

Thank to Kemang Icon Arts for giving me an oppotunity to create some artworks as freely as I am. Of course for this chance I want to apply my sociology researchs, creating a society of my own will be a great experiment. This is a huge project to handle, creating ideologies, the society icons and the system as well. I am still in a great confusion in deciding what I will make, a little bit to the left or to the right. I, myself, am in the left side of ideology, as a socialist and a humanist, but I don’t want this project become a socially freak idea. So, I keep researching, damn sociology is confusingly interesting.