The Synthesis of Self: The Matrix of Idealism and The Art of Forgetting

Abstract

As the human animal is heading towards a post human existence there will be a historical process where the new being will be absent of its authentic history and therefore its animality. This research paper looks at historically human behaviour in its arrogance which has no conscience about that which is destroyed in the pursuit of lifestyle, industry, production and ultimately the dehumanisation of the differing other. As this 'other' is obliterated as the quest for this quasi utopian state, albeit a state of a numbed and programmed existence as a contrived manufactured idealism for human perfection, the human being is reinvented to be used as a commodity of sorts which is controlled to belong to this proposed superior sense of culture. This research paper and art practice looks at the possibility of this kind of dystopian nightmare as man tries to master nature, and there is the morphing and matrix of the creatures animal being with the manufactured high end product, as things go awfully wrong in the post human quest for perfection and supremacy. The problem with humanity's inability to deal with the differing other results in the setting of such restricted standards which creates a cold war of societal disparity. We live in a world where ‘Animals’ have no history yet we as humans never cease to reconstruct our societies and our narcissistic identities, and in this regard we investigate humanity's sense of supreme ontological entitlement in their behaviour as a species. Animal desires and instincts historically have been covertly disguised under the veil of politeness but we must question the moral and ethical dimension of the potential for the post human as our animal desires will not cease but the void of the gloss and wax of societal delusions creates destruction and in its reinvention it is erasing history into a fairytale like past as it is wanting to assert its reinvented ‘being’ as a superior creature in a convoluted hierarchy.