“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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Posts Tagged With: Stupidity
le penseur
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.
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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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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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