HUMANS
In the Ankida Comic, we explore the quest for meaning, frequently asking, "What is it to be human?" and "What is life?" As humans we are caught between the distractions of modern life and a deeper, more profound spiritual reality that is blind to us. Unbeknownst to us, this is intentional and artificially inflicted.
The Eternal Inquiry: What is it to be Human?
“What is it to be human? What is the nature of the universe? What is our place within it? Why do we even exist?” These are the questions we have asked ourselves for millennia. This tradition of human self-reflection persists, refusing to be silenced even as we surround ourselves with modern trinkets designed to distract us from the underlying emptiness of contemporary life.
In the Ankida Comic, this inquiry isn’t just academic – it’s a survival mechanism. We are portrayed as beings who have forgotten our original esssence, traded for the white noise of a digital and material age.
The "Living Death": Life on Company Expenses
In an era where the commodification of life is constant, we seem to “die in our spare time and come back on company expenses.” We exist in a state of borrowed kindness, navigating a world where every breath, dream, and even the act of dying has been monetized.
Our “modernity,” which we cling to so fastidiously, has become a form of living death. We are trapped in a cycle where:
Time is Currency: Our hours are not our own; they are leased to systems that do not love us.
The Illusion of Life: We mistake biological survival for “living,” while our spiritual and creative selves remain in a state of atrophy.
Monetized Dreams: Even our inner world is colonized by the need to be “productive,” leaving no room for the profound or the sacred.
The Outsider’s Mirror: An "Alien" Perspective
Perhaps only an outsider’s view can wrangle us away from our own impotence and reveal the hurdles we have designed for ourselves. What would an alien—or the sentient fungi that carpet our world—say about humanity? Would they be disappointed by our inertia?
Despite our eagerness to show off the “fruits” of our social progress, we have remarkably little to show for it. Ankida suggests that we are being watched by entities who see our obsession with material success as a tragic misunderstanding of reality. We are like children proud of a sandcastle while the tide of a much larger, more complex universe is coming in.
Breaking the Inertia: Seeking the True Nature of the Universe
How can we be better? What is stopping us? Maybe our greatest hurdle is our own self-limiting literalism. By insisting that only what can be measured or sold is “real,” we blind ourselves to the particle entanglement and the “Spirit Molecule” that connects us to everything else.
The following illustrations and conversations are a compiled selection of truths—a map to help us navigate away from the “living death” and back toward a reality where heaven and earth can finally join.
