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Man Decides to do Something About His Tiger Problem (2024) Drawing by Edwin Loftus

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Taming Fire, Inventing the Wheel, Planting seeds, Taming animals, Discovering you can't win a game of tic-tac-toe, these were important evolutionary steps in our ancestors' slow and difficult progress toward US, the lone survivors of our species, Homo-sapiens. But I think another one of those steps was when Humans decided, "I'm just not going to take [...]
Taming Fire, Inventing the Wheel, Planting seeds, Taming animals, Discovering you can't win a game of tic-tac-toe, these were important evolutionary steps in our ancestors' slow and difficult progress toward US, the lone survivors of our species, Homo-sapiens.
But I think another one of those steps was when Humans decided, "I'm just not going to take it anymore!" and began our long war with the beasts that see us as food.
This man has spent the morning gathering eggs to feed his family and now has to drop all of those eggs and clamber up into a tree to avoid being eaten by the fierce and hungry Smilodon, (Saber-toothed Tiger) that is prowling nearby. His best weapon will be the enlarged frontal lobes of his primate brain. Realizing he's no match for the big feline in a one-on-one confrontation, he will begin looking for ways to defeat the cat without facing it, using trickery and his Homo habilus ancestors', ability to use tools and modify his environment.
It will still be more than 100,000 years before he is able to work with others and create the tools that will enable him to work the land and keep animals in an environment where he doesn't constantly have to wonder what's stalking him now. By the time he gets that far, Smilodon will be extinct and replaced by early versions of the Great Cats, Wild Canines and Large Bears of today. But the steps toward that day probably began something like what is depicted here, a frightened man or woman, angry at their helplessness and deciding to be less helpless.

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Edwin Loftus is an American painter and draftsman born in 1951. His interest in art began at the age of 4 when he decided to draw something real rather than working from his imagination. . As a child he excelled [...]

Edwin Loftus is an American painter and draftsman born in 1951. His interest in art began at the age of 4 when he decided to draw something real rather than working from his imagination. 

As a child he excelled at drawing and as a teenager he began to experiment with oil painting. In college, he took courses in art and art history and realized that true art had nothing to do with the quality of the drawing or painting, but that it had to have the ambition to push the boundaries and expand the visual experience. 

He also studied philosophy, psychology and history and quickly realized that it was just another art establishment trying to defend its elitist industry and reward system. Their skills were almost non-existent, they knew nothing about psychology, perception or stimulus response, and they were extensions of the belief system that made communism, fascism and other forms of totalitarianism such destructive forces in the world. They literally believe that art shouldn't be available to ordinary human beings, but only to an elite "sophisticated" enough to understand it. 

Edwin Loftus realized that the emperors of art had no clothes, but they were still the emperors. Gifted in art, he worked hard to acquire this skill. So he found other ways to make a living and sold a few artworks from time to time. For sixty years, many people enjoyed his works and some collected them. 

Today, Edwin Loftus is retired. Even if he sold all his paintings for the price he asked, "artist" would be the lowest paid job he ever had... but that's the way it is.  It won't matter to him after he dies. He just hopes that some people will like what he does enough to enjoy it in the future. 

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