Normalize cruelty and suffering by making them invisible through a compartmentalized reality. High walls of buildings without windows, maybe some zenithal openings for air renewal.
Concentration camps for animals and forced labor for humans, abode of invisible suffering, a necessary evil to feed the necessary illusions to manufacture consent.
On most continents there are examples of past grandeur, we let ourselves be enthralled by stories of conquests, wars, kings and emperors, history lessons very elucidative of the paths to avoid, but which are sold to us as dazzling civilizational attainments.
Architectural masterpieces, impressive feats of engineering, artistic works of exquisite magnificence petrified to be contemplated in great detail as a role model for the suffering and cruelty made invisible in the world of nowadays reality where animals, trees, rivers, forests experience the drama of unnecessary sacrifice to satisfy superfluous needs, for the love of Mammon and continue feeding necessary illusions to make tolerable an uninteresting and useless existence.
Collective participatory annihilation to implement megalomaniac projects can be traced as factual proof of human dehumanization throughout the history of the so called civilization.
Appreciating, respecting and admiring the creative ingenuity of human beings is commendable, but scale counts. Cutting down a dozen trees to open a clearing and install a village is not the same thing as clear-cutting a forest to build a city or a temple complex that aims, above all, to immortalize those who ordered it built, a proof of the iniquitous vanity and pretentious arrogance of (civilized) human superiority in the relationship between humanity and nature.
It is not possible to build megalomaniac works without reducing people to voluntary or forced servitude.
Everything that was once a grandiose work will be turned into ruins by the best master, time.
The great master made me more appreciative of uncivilized beauty and more skeptical of civilized achievements and more aware of the suffering and cruelty rendered invisible by a culture of pretentious artificiality.
