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Cartoon blog day 25: Reincarnation

First of all, I have some question about the link of time travel with reincarnation. Is reincarnation us going to the future, I mean who said that you retain your biological form when you Time travel, maybe you become a baby again and have to grow up in the future in the hope that you will still remember why you Time traveled in the first place. If you have any theories on that let me have it in the comments.

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Usually like any common mortal, my thoughts at any particular moment are influenced by the books I am reading. I just finished reading HOMO DEUS in which the author Yuval Noah Harari said that we record History not only to avoid mistakes by drawing lessons from the past but also because it liberates us.

Which is why talking to a friend about a problem you have, feels good. I usually find myself on the other side of the conversation because for some reason people believe that I am a good listener who doesn’t judge.

The problem I have come to realize is that I try to give solutions to any problem I hear, even if the person sharing the trouble doesn’t want one.

I cannot ask the person who is going through something horrible: “Now wait do you want me to listen or to give you a solution?” if you do this, you are considering the feelings of the person in front of you.

Maybe because we unconsciously know that History is mostly written by Victors we want all stories to end in a good way, or at least have some sort of closure FOR US. But that’s exactly the point, it’s not always about YOU.

As I grow up, I realize that everyone is going through something at any given moment and putting your feelings in front of theirs, is not helping anyone.

Bonne journée.

Cartoon blog day 24: Albums

This can be used as an Appendix to my post about Desensitization in social media.

I think no matter who you are, you will get bored or at least feel irritated if you see the same content over and over again.

I can’t exactly put it into appropriate words but, I think a lot of misunderstanding. prejudice, harm against people can be avoided if we take a moment to think about the way we feel. (in a way this blog was created for that purpose for me)

I thought about the boredom I feel about the people I know sharing the same kind of pictures, a.k.a their kid’s doing stuff EVERYDAY.

I hope we are all in agreement when I say that family is a beautiful thing in life and children are wonderful. But why do I roll my eyes whenever I see parents record every moment of their kid’s life?

This is why the desensitization is more dangerous than I thought, so much so it makes you hate the image of children.

If you capture every moment, are you able to tell which ones are special? Or do you feel that an experience not shared with people is not an experience worth having?

Bonne journée.

Cartoon blog day 23: Talking during movies

20181105 CBD24 Talking during movies

Based on a true story.

This actually happened more than once. I don’t know why but for some reason I like the people reacting, I like watching the Audience reactions on Youtube for the movies I have watched but I don’t want people to talk during movies.

ART is a language in itself where people connect without talking, people debate endlessly about the definition of Art and I think this is a fair definition of it.

As an artist, I can say that a work of art is a conversation between the artist and the audience. Movies are conversations, some of them are more honest than others, depending on how commercially oriented they are.

So I don’t want to hear you talk back to the screen, who taught you that?

Bonne journée.

Cartoon blog day 22: Artificial intelligence

20181102 CBD21 Artifical intelligence

Usually what I create, which means the things I put out there come from what I am reading, watching at that time. Since I am currently reading the brilliant Yuval Noah Harari’s HOMO DEUS, I was hit with a fear that I put aside for some time.

There is so much in the book to take in and I need to read it again to make notes and take lessons for myself. His book SAPIENS was about human history and this is about the future of humankind in which Artificial intelligence will play a major role.

He argues that many people or most people will become militarily and economically useless because their jobs will be taken over by artificial intelligence (A.I.).

The question I asked myself as a teacher and cartoonist, is not whether my job will be replaced by A.I. because that is inevitable, there are already computer programs which compose music, it won’t take long for them to make jokes. However, i start thinking about when it would happen.

We live truly in a crucial moment, you might say “yeah but every generation says that about their era”. Well, if not for anything else the rhythm of changes have never been so high in Human history. Do you realize that the first Smartphone IPhone was released in a 2007? 11 years ago? Look how much has changed in ten years.

Like I said in my cartoon, I have hope that we still have time. I went to see a movie the other day and I wanted to buy the ticket from the Automatic machine and it didn’t work so I went with the human option, which made me smile a bit.

We have time, Yes. Not to enjoy but to focus on reducing our Carbon footprint because that is for me the biggest problem at the moment.

Bonne journée.

Cartoon blog day 21: Can you be happy and healthy?

Let’s talk about HAPPY. (Not the graphic novel by Grant Morrison)

Does the state of happiness exist?

When you say you feel happy, aren’t you really just feeling a rush of chemicals in your brain? if so, how do you differentiate chemicals of happiness from chemicals of pleasure?

We are programmed to fulfill needs and act on our desires. If you call acting on desires happiness you are not different from other animals. Unless we choose our desires and needs in the first place. But, Do WE?

If I have learned from the massive book that is SAPIENS (by Yuval Noah Harari) is that we don’t seek happiness, we seek pleasure.

I started reflecting about this. If you were really happy you wouldn’t be thinking about what to do next after reading this. Most of us live in checklists of things we have to do.

-Wait, wait, there is more to that Boris.

-Of course, I am not a scientist, just a cartoonist, but there are also more reasons why people cheat on their partners, for now let’s stay simple.

All this to say, I’ve given up on eating chocolate on a regular basis. I eat chocolate only on Saturdays. This is not going to change anything in my body but I do love sweets and chocolate was my GO TO.

This craving made me think of whether people who are into strict diet are really happy. Because a strict diet means that they have sacrificed their old eating habits which would have been synonymous with pleasure.

What do you think, can you be healthy and happy?

Bonne journée.