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UNCERTAINTY

Uncertainty has always been part of human tragedy. We don’t know who we are, where we come from or why we are here.

This tragedy is the same of an orphan kid who tries to find out who his parents are. He just can imagine tons of things about this problem but maybe he will never know anything for sure.

We, as orphans of the world are lost in the middle of nowhere, and we suffer. We suffer since the moment we are conscious of our existence, since the moment we left the animal world. Are human beings the evolution or a superior race? Other animals are unable to feel hate, fear or sadness. Well, they don’t feel love, joy or passion.

But the real fact is that we had no choice, nobody asked us if we wanted to be human, we like or not that is our condition, with all its positive and negative aspects.

Man is the only animal that’s not menaced by other animals; we have defeated all our predators. But once we did it we realized that the enemy was closer than it appeared. We were eating ourselves from the inside. Man is the only animal that practices “autocanibalism”.

And then we find our painkiller: religion. A way to escape, to get away all our suffering, a new way to lie to ourselves. What a beautiful lie! Religion has an irresistible gimmick, they change the world we are living in for another beyond the material things where eternal glory is possible. That’s why religions are so successful, they are an eternal promise. But a dogma that denies live itself only can be described by a single word: perverse.

But what a lot of people consider as the opposite of religion, it not different at all. Yes, I’m talking about science. A new dogma has arrived to save us! The monster seems to be even more stupid than his friend religion. It dresses some bullshit in a sophisticated costume. Science tries to tell us that it is discovering the world, but scientists are a blind and dumb species, they can’t make a distinction between “discovering” and “inventing”. They are so focused on numbers and formulas that they don’t stop and thing that maybe nature is a complete chaos.

But if religion and science failed, what is the other way to deal with our tragedy? Art. Art is the most perfect expression of freedom; of creation and destruction. Through arts life appears in his whole and complex form, with all his beauty and ugliness.

Uncertainty is linked inherently to the human condition, but this fact is not always negative. We have to embrace the moment and, who knows? Maybe pain is just and illusion.

WRITTEN BY: Jesus Medina
E-Mail: alevanolrabrunette@hotmail.com
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