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Uhhhm ?... Interesting to be able to read between the lines ! .... Perhaps the "NEW WORLD ORDER" is not that distant in the future ....

One flat world, one flat "ruler" ? He sounds ' convincing ' as far as ' saying that none of those countries are interested in taking over ... anything .... ' what a wonderful and 'noble' thought , to some extent he does sound effortlessly like a ' Devil's Advocate ' .

The multinationals must be really 'concerned ' about bringing us
"PEACE, FREEDOM, PROSPERITY & KNOWLEDGE " how incredible altruistic of them .

The world indeed will become not just flat but flattened if we 'blindly' and passionately hail our upcoming self appointed leaders ( read multinationals ) to create 'THEIR NEW WORLD ORDER' ! ... Yes everyone wants wealth and prosperity but I'm wondering at what cost ? . Such views sound like the rising of a new possible 'paradise' ..... but what is in for 'them ' ? I'm wondering , of course we already know :):)

They somehow seem to miss how human nature really works ... when the honey moon is over between passionate lovers .... and however intricate intertwined their lives might be ... ' war' between those lovers is never ruled out ! ... and pride or any pride is far stronger than the kid telling his
father ... " you can't do that "

My grandmother told me once ..." Beware of anything or anyone where MONEY is their religion and their primary MOTIVATOR, however kind and
altruistic their pleads might sound to be " .

Perhaps we are getting closer and closer to the age of.... ' The People of the Light ' and they do seem to sound ' SINCERE ' . Interesting what he had to say about Democracy .

What an SCARY outlook for the future to think that the world could
possibly become just a huge ' Paradise ' factory ..... the ultimate global METROPOLIS!

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Ps. How interesting to listen to such views .... and Damien Hirst's philosophical view of life ..... and his Skull's message , but I'm going to speculate now somehow .... when Damien says "life is to short , don't waste it " .... perhaps he forgot to add ..... ' and make tons and tons of money because that is what really counts in the end in our ephemeral ' enlightened ' lives' and lets encrust our souls for eternity with those diamonds if only because ' diamonds are for ever ' and so shall we ! .....

It seems , indeed , that we have hopelessly lost it totally, and have sadly arrived at the wrong conclusion .

Damien should not be only recognised as the .... ultimate ' Michael Angelo ' of our times in the matters of our deplorable ZEITGEIST , but also as the ultimate truth that Art is indeed DEAD ... his skull is just the perfect allegory to illustrate it and all incrusted in diamonds as if telling us ... that it sold his soul for good and is smiling all the way to those vaults of ' treasures ' and the whole tale couldn't be any more perfect when seeing who is the proud owner of such a symbol of death decay, the worshipping of fake glamour, material wealth and our rather insane obsession with those who indeed seem to have, allegorically, empty skulls ! .....

That wonderful skull that kept intriguing me for so long and for so many reasons turns out indeed to represent our present society's values, and somehow I must assume that the 'creator' really didn't know the real intrinsic value of his totally precious man's manufactured ,absolutely brilliant ultimate masterpiece ! ... a mirror of earnest relevance . The irony is that Art has been outwitted by his own moral greed.

The gatekeepers do seem to have fallen into a kind of lethargy or are dead somehow .... or perhaps they are all alive and kicking kneeling at the gates of that wonderful fantasia begging to be let in, in that ' enlightened and enlightening ' kingdom of modern ' wisdom' we call ..... the shrew and ruthless forces of our new ' altruistic ' capitalism.

Poussin, Nicolas The Adoration of the Golden Calf
1633-36 Oil on canvas National Gallery, London

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The shrine has been made .... and now let's hail and dance joyously around our very own Golden Calf ...