The Human Status

Ramsés Morales Izquierdo, The Art of Modern Politics, February 11, 2019.

From time to time everybody needs to take a step back from the noise of our times and take in a deep breath of calm. To the cartoonist it is an opportunity to stretch their artistic legs and draw modern existence beyond the topics of the day.

Ramsés Morales Izquierdo has flung open the doors to the first act of corruption, which is to destroy the human within. 

"I had somehow taken it for granted that we all still believe with Socrates that it is better to suffer than to do wrong", wrote Hannah Arendt. Ramsés has composed her definition of the "atomized, isolated" individual so incapable to connect to anything outside its own body that we no longer speak of a dictator, but the extreme form of one in a totalitarian. A monolith with the last impediment gone, the legs are growing with each step from there. 

This then is the moral conundrum of the cartoonists. Their cartoons are based on a set of morals on the value of human life. As a vigilante of political and public life, their professionalism lies in continually asking every one of us, why we support the above, to regain in Arendt's words: 

"Regain what former times called the dignity or the honor of man: 

not perhaps of mankind but of the status of being human"

The cartoon shown is courtesy of Ramsés Morales Izquierdo and must not be reproduced without his permission.