Smarter than it sounds, but still dumb
Headline: Who was the first artist?

The article is about the first Okies, the first Deplorables, the first Three-Toothed Hillbillies Named Bubba. At first it sounds like the usual modern bigotry.

What if, long before Leonardo da Vinci or Michelangelo, the Neanderthals were humanity’s first artists? At any rate, this is the hypothesis raised by new dating of Spanish rock paintings published in February 2018 in the journal Science (link is external),indicating that the hands and animals depicted on the walls of three caves date back 65,000 years. This would mean that they were painted 25,000 years before the arrival of the first Homo sapiens in the Iberian peninsula.

If you follow Darwin, this bigotry is inevitable. Darwin postulated gradually increasing complexity, so of course WE are the top of the stack because we come AFTER the Okies. Hey dude, this is 2019. Get with it. We know now that Global Warming is real, that males are toxic, that gender is unreal, that Robert Mueller is the highest source of moral judgments, that Soros is God and Hillary is his Prophetess. Get with the pogrom or take one for the team.

If you face facts about genes, you see that the genome started with EVERYTHING and gradually lost different pieces for each species and individual. From this angle, Neanderthal art isn't a puzzle. We still have the genetic capacity to make artistic representations, so our ancestors also had the capacity. Probably more of it.

But this author is asking a more detailed and interesting question. Since these cave paintings show talent plus skill, the painter must have spent time developing his skill.

In fact, what determines artists’ status is the position they hold in society. “The term ‘artist’ refers to a socio-professional category of specialists whose social identity stems from the production of graphic or visual art,” Bourdier adds. However, for both the Neanderthals and Homo sapiens of the Upper Palaeolithic (35,000 to 10,000 years ago), there is almost no trace of these social identities.

Translating the jargon, he seems to mean that the hillbillies knew how to delegate and divide tasks, allowing people to exchange their specialized labor for other specialized labor. Bubba didn't leave us any organizational spreadsheets, so we don't know if the artist had an assigned role.

Again the Grand Blueprint answers the question without any written evidence. All colonies and hives, from bacterial biofilms to coral reefs to beehives to elephants to humans, have divided labor and assigned tasks. Neanderthals didn't come before bacterial biofilms, so OF COURSE they had division of labor. Probably better than ours.

A more important question is why modern humans insist on SPEEDING UP the natural degradation of genetic complexity by rigidly assuming that our current monstrous genocidal psychotic deanimation is the highest and best stage of culture.

We are rapidly breaking down all borders and boundaries, including the boundaries between jobs and social roles. We are killing massive segments of the population, based SPECIFICALLY on skills. When "everybody can be anything", everybody is nothing.

Labels: Deadthink, Grand Blueprint, skill-estate

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