“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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human absurdity
“History is the study of all the world’s crime.”
~ Voltaire ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in February 2007.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Absurdity, Accept, Asshole, Cliff, Copulating, Death, Digital Imagery, Egomaniacs, Hate, Heads, History, Horror, Human Condition, Ignorance, Intolerance, Lemmings, Life, Loop, Masses, Mouth, Peasants, Perspective, Photography, Pigheaded, Poetry, Power-Hungry, Procrastinating, Propagating, React, Respect, Stupidity, Talk Back, Thoughts And Prayers, Tolerate
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le penseur
“Illusion is the first of all pleasures.”
~ Voltaire ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in Paris in June 2018.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Absurdity, Art, Avarice, Awareness, Beauty, Compassion, Darkness, Digital Imagery, Enlightenment, Fools, Future, History, Idiots, Ignorance, Knowledge, Lemmings, Life, Literature, Paris, Past, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Progress, Propaganda, Science, Shadows, Stupidity, Thinking, Time, Transition, Wisdom
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reboot required
“The two most common elements in the universe
are hydrogen and stupidity.”
~ Harlan Ellison ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken on the island of Ischia, Italy in June 1996.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Awareness, Change, Consumerism, Digital Imagery, Environment, Logic, Materialism, Perceptions, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Progeny, Re-education, Reboot, Sea, Stupidity, Swamp
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as if they never were
“The earth doesn’t care about humanity,
but humanity had better start caring about the earth.”
~ Erik Barth ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in Paris in May 2013.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Cliffs, Clouds, Clueless, Cold, Digital Imagery, Future, Horizon, Laughing, Lemmings, Madness, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Rain, Rocks, Sadness, Splattering, Storm, Stupidity, Tide
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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 a 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 a 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, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Sadness, Sins, Street Art, Stupidity, Time, Weep
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the inheritors
“Earth has its boundaries, but human stupidity is limitless.”
~ Gustave Flaubert ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo of street art in Paris taken in September 2017.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Apathetic, Balance, Birth, Clueless, Consequences, Death, Digital Imagery, Evolution, Existence, Harmony, Hatred, History, Ignorance, Inheritors, Injustice, Life, Paris, Past, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Poverty, Selfishness, Shortsightedness, Street Art, Stupidity, Unaware, Violence, War
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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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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 a 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, Perspective, Philosophy, Photography, Poetry, Ruins, Science, Stupidity, Tear, Time, Weep
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SHINE A LIGHT ON ME
“Is man merely a mistake of God’s?
Or God merely a mistake of man?”
~ Friedrich Nietzsche ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in November 2021.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Altar Boy, Belief, Blackness, Blind, Candles, Death, Digital Imagery, Gallows, God, Incense, Life, Light, Mass, Misery, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Prayers, Shine, Stupidity, Thurible, Time
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TWENTY FOUR SEVEN
“The average Smartphone user checks
his or her device every six and a half minutes.”
~ Anonymous ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in Paris in May 2018 of street art by Kai.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Addiction, Brain Dead, Communication, Digital Imagery, Display, Instant Gratification, Mobile Phone, Nomophobia, Paris, Photography, Poetry, Reality, Selfie, Smartphone, Street Art, Stupidity
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VIS LIBRES ET MEURS
“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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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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LEMMINGS
“Over-consumption and overpopulation underlie
every environmental problem we face today.”
~ Jacques Yves Cousteau ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in June 2021.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Climate Change, Conflict, Death, Digital Imagery, Disease, Extinction, Famine, Future, Incompetence, Lemmings, Life, Overpopulation, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Resources, Stupidity, Unlimited Growth
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HIDDEN AWAY
“If you stay here, you become lost.
And no one can find you. I like lost.”
~ Ally Condie ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in November 2020.
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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.
© 2020 nightpoet all rights reserved
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.
© 2020 nightpoet all rights reserved
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.
© 2020 nightpoet all rights reserved
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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