“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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Posts Tagged With: Stupidity
EMPIRES
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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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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APOCALYPSO
“This is the way the world ends,
not with a bang, but a whimper.”
~ T. S. Eliot ~
Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo taken in September 1999.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Amusement, Apocalypse, Bastard, Brutish, Dance, Darkness, Death, Digital Imagery, Evil, Future, God, Ignorant, Image, Merciless, Narrow Minded, Perspective, Photography, Plague, Poetry, Predator, Prey, Religion, Sadistic, Selfish, Shadows, Sins, Spiteful, Stupidity, Suffering, Vicious Circle
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LOOK BACK IN ANGER
“There is nothing so cruel in this world
as the desolation of having nothing to hope for.”
~ Haruki Murakami ~
Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo of street art taken in the late 1980’s.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Anger, Apathy, Cluelessness, Darkness, Death, Digital Imagery, Emotions, Empathy, Faceless, Fallacy, Friendships, Frustration, Future, Hopelessness, Ignorance, Life, Love, Memories, Narcissism, Nescience, Opportunities, Oppressors, Past, Peers, Photography, Poetry, Sadness, Sins, Street Art, Stupidity, Time, Weep
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SHEEP
“I hate all men, the ones because they are mean and vicious,
and the others for being complaisant with the vicious ones.”
~ Moliere ~
Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo of street art taken in Paris in December 2019.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Aristocrat, Bigots, Bleat, Bollocks, Capitalism, Corruption, Darkness, Death, Digital Imagery, Eyes, Flock, Future, Gripe, Groan, Grumble, History, Ignorance, Intelligence, Lambs, Life, Mask, Misdeeds, Misnomers, Molotov Cocktail, Paris, Past, Photography, Pigs, Poetry, Politics, Revolution, Rich, Sheep, Shepherd, Slaughter, Snore, Street Art, Stupidity, Time
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BULBOUS MAXIMUS ~ A FAIRY TALE
“Nationalism is an infantile thing.
It is the measles of mankind.”
~ Albert Einstein ~
Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo taken in Paris in May 2019.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Ass, Balls, Bovid, Bribes, Caprice, Darkness, Death, Dick, Digital Imagery, Disgusting, Drawn and Quartered, Fairy Tale, Feces, Hate, Heads, History, Ignorance, Life, Nasty, Obnoxious, Odious, Paris, Photography, Pikes, Poetry, Politics, Prick, Propaganda, Rabble, Racist, Repugnant, Revolution, Shadows, Stupidity, Tweeting, Veremin
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THE FRAGMENT OF A TEAR
“Always and inevitably, everyone underestimates
the number of stupid individuals in circulation.”
~ Carlo M. Cipolla ~
Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo taken in Paris in May 2019.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Apathy, Art, Cockroaches, Death, Digital Imagery, Dragonflies, Experiment, Extermination, Extinction, Future, Harmony, History, Hope, Humanity, Ignorance, Knowledge, Life, Literature, Memories, Music, Nature, Paris, Past, Philosophy, Photography, Poetry, Ruins, Science, Stupidity, Tear, Time, Weep
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BRICK BY BRICK
“There is no darkness but ignorance.”
~ William Shakespeare ~
Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo taken in April 2019.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Art, Beams, Beauty, Brainlessness, Bricks, Certitude, Charlatans, Clowns, Darkness, Digital Imagery, Dogma, Dunces, Environment, Half-Timbered, Insight, Intellect, Intelligence, Knowledge, Life, Literature, Logic, Music, Past, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Politics, Religion, Science, Stupidity, Time, Truth, Wisdom
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MISANTHROPE
“Two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity,
and I am not yet completely sure about the universe.”
~ quote attributed to Albert Einstein
by Frederick S. Perls ~
Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo of street art taken in Berlin in January 2018.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Copulation, Digital Imagery, Extinction, History, Human Beings, Humankind, Intelligence, Life, Masses, Misanthrope, Past, Photography, Spawn, Species, Street Art, Stupidity, Survival, Unawareness, Universe
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