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CREATIVITY(DIVERSITY) INSTEAD OF MARKETING (UNIFORMITY) My work

is about social, economic, political and scientific developments in our post-modern world,

particularly globalism (i.e. uniformity, fragmentation and identity problems), the free-

market ideology (mass consumption), the media and show business and about (the end of)

Western modernism (and its hierarchical relationship  to nature). I

am not so much concerned with personal (free) expression as with communication (changing

consciousness), which is why I use a broad range of styles (based on realism). My aim is to

look critically at Western modernism (the distinction between body and mind [= matter +

energy], i.e.rationalism, materialism, mechanism, dehumanising, reductionism,linear thought,

narrowmindedness, hierarchy, control and exploitation of nature [taking only, no balance

or harmony], the cult of self,expansion/growth [the idea of progress]. I am looking for new

assumptions and starting points where modernistic assumptions have failed. In other words,

I am referring back to pre-modernism [including primitive cultures] to find out how we can

start again. For the past century we have factually already been living in a non-modernistic

world. All products requiring electricity (including computers and the internet but also the A-

bomb, laser, holographics,nanotechnology and so on) are based on quantum mechanics, which

states that there is NO separation between matter and energy. Modernistic duality [and thus

the other modernistic assumptions] has been proven wrong for the past century! However, we

are still living with a modernistic mentality or mindset, which is the root cause of many of

our current problems (particularly the climate change and the financial-economic system, i.e.

political and social issues).

Modernism:

Control + exploitation of nature.

rationality----------------------------] analytically,.
-- materialism, mechanism, dehumanisation------] causal,.
reductionism--------------------------] and linear thinking.

hierarchy-----------------].
--oa.racisme-----------------].
egocultus----------------] submission.
-- individualism, hedonism,----]        +.
-- short-term thinking--------] categorization.
expansion---------------].
colonialism, globalism--------].

idea of progress.
growth, property.