“Freedom and responsibility aren’t interconnected things.
They are the same thing.”
~ Harry Browne ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in July 2021.
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Posts Tagged With: Ignorance
VIS LIBRES ET MEURS
Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: America, Breath, Covid, Death, Denial, Digital Imagery, Egocentric, Empathy, Fools, Freedom, Ignorance, Inconsiderate, Life, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Self-Centered, Selfishness, Stupidity
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A DISTANT WINDOW
“Any fool can know. The point is to understand.”
~ Albert Einstein ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in September 2009.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Awareness, Digital Imagery, Dusk, Extinction, Hearts, Ignorance, Intolerance, Knowledge, Life, Lights, Minds, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Silhouettes, Treasure, World
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CORNU COPIAE
“All animals are equal,
but some animals are more equal than others.”
~ George Orwell ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo of a fragment of painted Roman wall plaster depicting what is possibly an empty cornucopia taken in January 2016.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Cancer, Cornucopia, Digital Imagery, Disease, Greed, Humanity, Hunger, Ideology, Ignorance, Inequality, Life, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Poor, Poverty, Privilege, Religion
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TETHYS
“Every human endeavor, however singular it seems,
involves the whole human race.”
~ Jean-Paul Sartre ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in the Aegean Sea between Thera (Santorini) and Crete in October 1992.
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THE CONCEPT OF GLASS
“The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend.”
~ Robertson Davies ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in May 2021.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Aperture, Comprehension, Concept, Digital Imagery, Evolving, Fly, Freedom, Glass, Ignorance, Knowledge, Learning, Mysteries, Photography, Poetry, Room, Universe, Window
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THE VERY LAST BUMBLEBEE
Celebrating Earth Day 2021
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in the Zitadelle Moat Nature Preserve in April 2010.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Bumblebee, Commerce, Digital Imagery, Earth Day, Greed, Hell, Ignorance, Memory, Monsanto, Nature, Perspective, Pesticides, Photography, Poetry, Profit, Progress
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THE SANCTUARY OF THEIR BLINDNESS
“The liar’s punishment is not in the least that he is not believed,
but that he cannot believe anyone else.”
~ George Bernard Shaw ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in Paris in August 2017.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Animals, Belief, Blindness, Captives, Digital Imagery, Faces, Hungry, Ignorance, Lies, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Sanctuary, Short-Sighted, Small Talk, Smiles, Spoken, Teeth, Truth, Word
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DIVOƆ
“Look for the helpers. You will always find people who are helping.”
~ Fred Rogers ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in Paris in June 2018.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Ants, Bedlam, Confusion, Denial, Digital Imagery, Fear, Frenzy, Ignorance, Pandemic, Perspective, Photography, Poetry
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PISSING INTO THE WIND
“The government of the United States is not,
in any sense, founded on the Christian religion.”
~ John Adams ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris in May 2012.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Banana Republic, Bigotry, Blasphemy, Christianity, Dark Ages, Democracy, Digital Imagery, Fascist, Flies, Founding Fathers, Ignorance, Patriarchal, Perspective, Photography, Pissing, Poetry, Posteriors, Respect, Servitude, Shit, Theocracy, Tub-Thunpers, Wind
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A LOT OF CLOWNS
“When the heroes go off the stage, the clowns come on.”
~ Heinrich Heine ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in in Paris in June 2019.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Acrobats, Antennae, Asses, Baboons, Beasts, Brainwashed, Carnival, Chalice, Chaos, Circles, Circus, Clowns, Death, Digital Imagery, Fool, Ignorance, Jugglers, Life, Lions, Mirrors, Parabolic, Paris, Perspective, Photography, Pig, Pit, Play, Poetry, Price, Ticket, Tigers
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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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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Beauty, Cave Painters, Civilization, Colonialism, Cruelty, Dark Ages, Darkness, Death, Digital Imagery, Egypt, Environment, Experiment, First Farmers, Future, Greed, Greeks, History, Ignorance, Industrial Revolution, Innocent, Life, Medieval Society, Past, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Poor, Romans, Sumeria, The Enlightenment, Time, War
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AS WE ONCE KNEW IT
“As beings, we should not strive to change the world but change ourselves.
For if we change ourselves all things are possible.”
~ Henry Johnson Jr. ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in Rethymno on the Island of Crete in 1992.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Change, Clouds, Compassion, Darkness, Death, Digital Imagery, Fear, Fools, Future, Horizon, Ignorance, Innocent, Life, Memories, Morning, Normal, Optimistic, Past, Photography, Poetry, Survival, Time, Uncertainty, World
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EMPIRES
“We’re doomed to repeat the past no matter what.
That’s what it is to be alive.”
~ Kurt Vonnegut ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in Pompeii in June 1996.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Breath, Crumble, Curse, Darkness, Death, Digital Imagery, Empires, Foundations, Future, History, Ignorance, Lessons, Life, Mankind, Memories, Past, Perspective, Photography, Plundering, Poetry, Proud, Rot, Rubble, Ruins, Strong, Stupidity, Survivors, Tall, Tides, Time, Walls, Wreckage
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STAYING AFLOAT
“The world is filled with fools,
but none of them considers himself one,
or tries not to be one.”
~ Baltasar Gracián ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in November 2010.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Afloat, Awareness, Blind Belief, Common Sense, Comprehension, Creatures, Digital Imagery, Dogma, Emotions, Exist, Facts, Flail, Flotsam, Flounder, Fools, Humanity, Ignorance, Imagination, Intolerance, Life, Noses, Nyaffs, Perception, Perspective, Perspicacity, Philosophy, Photography, Poetry, Prejudice, Reason, Reflections, Religion, Sea, Think, Water
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THE SIN OF THE CALF
“The God excuse, the last refuge of a man
with no answers and no argument.”
~ George Carlin ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in March 2001.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Ass, Bible Babblers, Binge, Blasphemy, Confused, Darkness, Dazed, Desert, Dick, Digital Imagery, Face, Finger, Golden Calf, Ignorance, Moses, Mountain, Pants, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Religion, Stick
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SO MUCH BETTER WITHOUT US
“Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of the cancer cell.”
~ Edward Abbey ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in April 2020.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Air, Animals, Beauty, Birds, Consequences, Death, Destruction, Digital Imagery, Environment, Future, Greed, Ignorance, Isolation, Life, Love, Memories, Passion, Past, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Pollution, Songs, Spring, Streets, Stupidity, Time, World
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CITADEL
“We are all born ignorant,
but one must work hard to remain stupid.”
~ Benjamin Franklin ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo of a hand painted tile taken in April 2020.
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THESE DARK DAYS
“The real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.”
~ Plato ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in April 2020.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Bounty, Care, Concern, Conscience, Darkness, Days, Death, Digital Imagery, Empathy, Fear, Future, Harvest, Hatred, Heart, Ignorance, Kindness, Life, Light, Limits, Love, Perspective, Photography, Plentiful, Poetry, Positive, Rich, Safe, Seeds, Shared, Sickness, Strong, Time, Understanding
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NO GOD
“There is no darkness but ignorance.”
~ William Shakespeare ~
Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo taken in Paris in September 2017.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Anarchy, Ashes, Autumn, Avenues, Barbarism, Breath, Burned, Cadavers, Capitalism, Cathedral, Choke, Civilization, Contorted, Culture, Darkness, Death, Decency, Digital Imagery, Eat, Enlightenment, Food, Fools, God, Heart, Humanity, Ignorance, Leaves, Life, Money, No Future, Paris, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Rags, Religion, Rich, Rubble, Shadows, Streets, Twisted, Virus
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WAG THE DOG
“Any man can make mistakes,
but only an idiot persists in his error.”
~Marcus Tullius Cicero ~
Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo of a Neolithic dog burial taken in February 1988.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Ass, Awareness, Bimbo, Bitch, Compassion, Comprehension, Consequences, Corruption, Cult, Death, Depravity, Digital Imagery, Distraction, Empathy, Fascist Pig, Filth, Future, Hatred, History, Ignorance, Immorality, Intelligence, Photography, Pig, Poetry, Politics, Racism, Sense, Silicone, Teeny Weenie, Tiny Hands, Understanding, Worshipers
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