1967-04-24

Sonja Ferlov Mancoba writes to Niels Ferlov about her perception of humanity, humankind, and cultural history. How humanity bears a responsibility to seek out the essential. That we must maintain faith in the humanity where we all contribute with our function. Even when the individual is forgotten, their contribution is part of our collective history, and its striving has left traces. Sonja Ferlov Mancoba criticizes society today, with its focus on science and technology as the basis for creation. This has only led to spiritual emptiness and a desire for power. Religion and art are also criticized – art has become something that grants prestige. In contrast, she emphasizes "the true Values" and the people who fight for them. She laments that the world we pass on to our children is more "tattered" than the one she received.