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Stoic Spirit's art and philosophy!
What makes my comics and related artwork special and unique is that entertaining and amusing are not the sole purposes of these comics. Those are also philosophical, moral, and historical lectures as well as my satires and documentaries will be.
The deeper meaning of science fiction
The reason is why the nihilism is damn attractive especially for youngsters because it offers an instant exemption from any responsibility. But you have to pay a hefty price for being nihilist, your life has no meaning anymore, and it hits back for a long term. You’re doomed to stagnate in a Vicious Circle where you’ll end up to be even more nihilistic, and as result more and more bitter, resentful, vengeful, with blaming everyone who is not you. I considered myself a decade ago a sci-fi fan not because I would have been modernist but rather because I feared of modernism. The modernism ruined my childhood and almost my adulthood too. The modernism ruins everyone and everything without being noticed both intellectually and emotionally. If you have read the essays and blog posts of this website it’s nothing new about this. If there is sin against the holy ghost the modernism definitely is. As Aldous Huxley says, where everything is available, nothing has any meaning. I don’t see how could the dystopian future be avoided, and presenting it is the sci-fi as genre for. It’s not merely self-serving entertaining, the sci-fi if it’s valuable must have a deeper philosophical and intellectual meaning. This sci-fi comic series yet wasn’t inspired by merely another sci-fi movies, albeit many similarities can be discovered by the attentive reader. The protagonist who is a tragic hero by the way had been created by inspiration of such movies as Dead Poets Society and Swing Kids, because these movies impressed me the most as a teenager, not by accident. Both movies well present how the system strive to destroy the creative and talented teens, just because they are impossible to be comformized, which is heartbreaking. The talent is self-sufficient, it’s impossible to control. The greatest transgression an artist can commit is if he becomes a tool of propaganda. Treating the creativity this way is common shame of Western Civilisation, which destroys that already discovered, the value of individual freedom.
Of course manifesting my fear and paranoia in creating sci-fi doesn’t mean fearing of parallel dimension, worm holes, dark alter egos, or nano robots, and the superficial reader can, of course, rightly say that I only adapt sci-fi clichés with using them, but this is only partly true. Because no one has monopoly over great ideas. There’s always room for further improvement, and adding further meaning to already existing ideas. On the other hand as I mentioned above this additional improvement means manifesting fears of the semi-totalitarian, neo-pagan, modernist, nihilistic, dystopian western society which about to come or which we already live in. I have no illusion of the future of West, and of course of the world and humanity in general, especially after reading the twin-pillar of the twentieth century literature, Orwell’s Nineteen eighty four, and Huxley’s Brave New World. In spite of technical advancement we achieved nothing philosophically, and yet worse we got stuck in some weird intellectual vacuum. At the same time the forced integration and decivilisation are more critical now than ever. learning this by the time makes me more pessimistic about the future and present than I was at the time of creation of this series.
I am publishing the series in a non-chronological order for which I apologize. And the reason for this is that the episodes were not composed in sequential order, many of them have been lost or destroyed over time and require re-creation. It takes more time to edit, color, standardize. The early episodes are obviously amateurish, which need an improvement. The series had begun to create long after the Sliders, and Matrix trilogy but shortly before the Rick and Morty show debuted. I want you to know in spite of any similarities this series is not a clone of any of them.
As a general rule of thumb, the protagonist is the best version of the creator, and it is no different here. The protagonist of series, Marius Tartatowksi or Tartatovsky is an entirely fictional character, but a part of my personality at the same time, representing my personal development. In other words he is the man I strive to be. He is the saint, a hero, and a criminal in the same person, who wanted to be neither. He just wanted to live a normal life as everyone else, but the fate or rather a series of lucky and unfortunate coincidences entrusted him with a special role to play. No one is born a hero, the occasion gives birth to heroes. Because the time will come to choose between the easy and the right path. Everyone must pick a side in war time and no one can afford to be an outsider.
There are many varieties of sci-fi as a genre, but in one thing they all have something in common. They all present a nihilistic dystopian future, or even present, which is an involuntary warning on their part what’s gonna happen if we are not careful enough with given power. And this is the message of the past to future generations, because it’s a conclusion of history. No human can handle with power. Or yet? The great science fiction always shows the way out even of the most desperate and hopeless situations through the personality and virtue of protagonists. In all circumstances, choose the right path instead of the easy one, and act as you’d be a citizen of Plato’s republic. The moral lesson is this, and it’s a deeper meaning the science fiction as well.