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The objective of the Manifesto is to restore value to the Fine Arts so that they can, as they did in the glorious past, positively influence culture, politics and the collective vision of individuals, allowing society itself to prosper again, leading us to a great rebirth, a new Renaissance.
Why through art?
Art is the means of expression of human interiority and its journey through this earthly existence; it is the interdependent reflection of the human soul, both causal and consequential; manipulating its form and expression therefore alters the individual’s perception of their own reflection and, consequently, their future nature; art is what inspires minds and hearts, it is fundamental to the health and well-being of a society, but if maliciously altered, it is the cause of its downfall.
The Manifesto will bring awareness to the incredible and effective pervasive capacity of the arts, which, though subtle in their methods and difficult to grasp, are capable of influencing society by affecting even the individual’s perception of reality itself, to the point of gradually but inexorably changing deeply rooted ethical and moral values, consequently overturning the political, cultural and religious power balances of the society exposed to it, through its various forms of dissemination (cinematography, visual and performing arts, mediatic/cultural content).
Art has two fundamental expressive possibilities, when used in diametrically opposed ways, namely to illuminate with Light or to obscure with darkness, depending on who is using it and for what purpose:
- It can be a fundamental element in preserving our humanity, capable of safeguarding the perception of our own existence and our role on this planet, becoming a bearer of ethical, moral, theological and cultural/nationalistic values; it is a vehicle for rationality, poetry, philosophy, beauty, preservation of collective national and religious identity, transcendental hope, and existential optimism.
- It can be (and today it predominantly is) an element of corruption of our soul and our existential positivity, capable of degenerating ethical, moral and theological values, even those rooted for millennia; it can lead even the most flourishing and healthy societies to collapse into the most insane degeneration, as is happening today in the West; it is used to promote relativism, subjectivism, ugliness elevated to beauty, degeneration elevated to pride, pornography and the normalization of prostitution and pedophilia, substance abuse and harmful habits, irresponsible selfishness and harmful hedonism, rampant consumerism, violence, despair and depression, negativity and existential nihilism.
The Manifesto aims to engage the institutions of Power responsible for Culture and Arts and demonstrate to the world the benefits that the arts can have in positively influencing society; the first step is to begin classifying the arts and cultural products as tools capable of implementing “bio-engineering of the masses“; the arts can indeed be seen as potential medicines for social well-being and the strengthening of the social fabric, or as potential weapons aimed at the disintegration of society itself.
Architecture before and after the reversal of values
Conceptual paraphrase from my book "The Great Cultural Battle":
Western society, in continuous decline for years, is now reaching a general collapse; degeneration, madness, relativism and a deep desperate nihilism have infected the cultural products consumed daily by their blind citizens for over a century, who are unknowingly influenced and shaped by them. Cinematography, visual arts, music, literature, and media products… all these cultural sectors seem to have become fairy-tale poisoned apples, distributed with such innocent pretense by those who were once tasked with educating and guiding us, or at least pleasantly entertaining us; all completely contrary to what academic culture and the Fine Arts offered until the 1800s, before the Impressionist Revolution that first shook traditional cultural Institutions; the Fine Arts served as a “Katéchon”, a positive force that restrains evil.
Why do the arts and culture today seem to suggest everything that should be avoided? Why has everything produced by art today become a vehicle for distorted and degenerate messages, tools to divide us, to make us reject our cultural identity, to tempt and morally corrupt us? Why is everything that is dissolving the foundations of our civilization being promoted and idolized? Who benefits from this?
The social fabric has demonstrably crumbled, individualism and selfishness reign: depression, drug and psychotropic use, unhealthy entertainment and irresponsible hedonism, anti-morality, idiocy and pervasive perversion; all of this is justified and promoted from above as if it were a matter of pride and a new Western value (the new democracy and “freedom”)… and unaware individuals, enslaved by the means of dissemination, throw themselves headlong into this “pompa diaboli“, this “panem et circenses“, in a desperate attempt to do and do, consume and consume, experience things to the point of nausea, in an effort to fill an existential void that seems never to be satisfied, if not temporarily, before this abyss within them digests everything, only to demand even more shortly after; a deceptive industry of eternal entertainment, a carousel, so full of colorful, attractive artificial lights, capable of distracting us like nocturnal insects lured into a deadly trap.
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Visual Arts Before and After
The cause of the social collapse is before us and it is what our senses consume and our minds process and absorb; human beings identify with their surroundings and with what is narrated to them… the enormous narrative bubble in which we have all been immersed has demonized and stigmatized our glorious past, making us forget that just a century ago the world turned upside down with the Dadaist Revolution and the modernity derived from it gave us everything except true well-being; our task will first be to burst this bubble and then to design together a glorious future, thanks to the many minds freed from media slavery.
The ideal historical moment has arrived to outline the Artistic Manifesto of the new millennium, which must shape the culture to come and whose primary purpose will be to free the consciences of individuals chained by the omnipresent ideological late-modernist Western visual propaganda; a new artistic avant-garde with a restorative imprint but oriented toward the future, enriched by the knowledge of the past but rooted in the present, maintaining freshness, flexibility and open-mindedness to understand daily dilemmas and outline a correct direction for the world to come.
It is an artistic and political movement capable of healing society and returning it to the ancient dawn before the DADA tragedy of 1916, which, with its seed of relativism, nihilism and anarchy, disrupted Europe, overturning its ethical/moral values, cutting the ties with our millennial cultural heritage; but can art be such an important element, a cornerstone of society itself? We were taught that it is merely a pleasant and creative pastime, not to be taken too seriously!
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