21st Faith

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by Louis Schreyer.
Faith is of uttermost importance in the 21. Century. Our future has been stolen
and it is up to us to overcome sarcasm and depression by taking control of our future.
Orwell said, “who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls
the past.”
While we are living in the exaggeration of something similar to the utopian nightmare
of the Brave New World as described by Aldous Huxley, our future is painted more
sinisterly with the dooming Extinction through nuclear war or natural disasters.
Because it is too difficult accepting this fact and ones apathy towards our future
as humanity, we all live in our own more or less happy little worlds.
Faith in the 21. Century can be described to me like this. Imagine everybody
in the world would stop working for 1 day completely. Although it seems technologically
and logistically possible in terms of communication, it still seems highly unlikely
it would ever happen. I chose this example because I believe we need to restore our faith
in humanity as whole, and that means me and you and everybody else. There is a small
fraction of people in power that are responsible for the ongoing illegal wars, as well as
climate change regulations or in positions to change this global trend. Yet in a world ruled
by the free markets our illusion of choice through representative democracies, does not
hold any power in changing these main issues we are facing. By coming together
with something as radically as stopping the economy completely for one day, would start
a new era, “the human project,” and show humanity we stand together, which is the only
way we will ever change the relations of power. For a single person, not coming in for
work one day might not seem that radical, you might say you are ill or just skip it
and get an excuse. If you are super straight you could even get one holiday day. Either way
your consequences would be minimal. But if everyone did this act of minimal damage
to ones personal life, it would have a huge impact on the worlds equilibrium.
This would only work if everybody firmly believed that everybody else was also going
to stay at home just like them. In the same way that, if I believe the world is going down
and our environment is totally fucked up, and either way the huge companies are creating
way more waste then I do, so it doesn’t even matter, I won’t recycle.
But if I believe in a future where the people have forced governments and companies
to change their regulations and the planet and species’ are regenerating, plus I know
everybody else is recycling too, I almost have to recycle. Even just morally. Therefore we
have to believe in the future again. Nobody I have ever met wants to bomb or kill anyone
else, nobody wanted the planet to be polluted and species to go extinct or even humans
to go instinct either. I don’t know if you as the reader agree but this is for most part of
humanity at least those people who have the luxury to live in peace. Why can’t we imagine
a future in peace, powered by renewable energies, working on human survival
on this planet and the growth of empathy and balance through having faith.
Us, as artists, communicators, but also everybody else has have the chance to rebuild this
future. Have faith, create faith, dream about the future. In the end the future only exists
in the way we speak about it. It never really starts, neither tonight, nor tomorrow, nor in a
year. We can only imagine it by the way we think about it or how it is been portayed to us.
Only if we have faith in the future, we can act positively and be happy today.
Louis: louisschreyer.com, @bitchesandturtles