Posts Tagged With: Cruelty

the absurdity of it all

 

“We can regard our life as a uselessly disturbing episode
in the blissful repose of nothingness.”

 

~ Arthur Schopenhauer ~

 

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Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in September 1987.


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virus

 

“This virus is shrewd in its camouflage
   and unabashed in its cruelty.”

 

~ Aysha Taryam ~

 

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Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in April 2020.


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the test

 

“Humanity’s true moral test, its fundamental test, consists of
its attitude towards those who are at its mercy: animals.”

 

~ Milan Kundera ~

 

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Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in April 1993.


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AGELESS AM I

 

“The planet is fine. The people are fucked.”

 

~ George Carlin ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in Kinderdijk, Netherlands in April 2007.


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VIRUS

 

“This virus is shrewd in its camouflage
and unabashed in its cruelty.”

 

~ Aysha Taryam ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in April 2020.


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WITH LITTLE FEELING

 

When I first took this photo some twenty-three years ago,
it profoundly moved me. Humankind’s inhumanity to their
own species is horrible enough, but our inhumanity towards
all life should make us seriously question our own morality
as a species. Sadly the answer to that question is very ugly…

 

 

000 with little feelingPhoto taken in the Frankfurt Zoo, Frankfurt am Main, Germany in April 1993.


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THE TEST

 

“Humanity’s true moral test, its fundamental test…
consists of its attitude towards those who are at its mercy: animals.”

 

~ Milan Kundera ~

 

000 the testPhoto taken in the Frankfurt Zoo, Frankfurt am Main, Germany in April 1993.


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