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Monday 5 June 2017

Genocidal Culture Busker Haircut #9: The outside is upside down

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#03 | by sayan_mukherjee

#03: photo by Sayan Mukherjee, 8 April 2017

#03 | by sayan_mukherjee

#03: photo by Sayan Mukherjee, 8 April 2017

#03 | by sayan_mukherjee

#03: photo by Sayan Mukherjee, 8 April 2017

☀ | by Riccardo Gerbi Cattaneo

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: photo by Riccardo Cattaneo, 26 February 2017 

You've never been around the block, but you're pretty sure you know
what you'd have learned but didn't couldn't have been of any real value
to you, and what else matters, because the consciousness of being
 
able to control or at any rate to conquer reality
is made possible only by protection
from reality, and this is your consciousness, Monsieur Voltaire,
 
said Rousseau, whereas the feeling of being lost and forsaken
in this reality is far more common among those for whom
the relinquishing of this reality remains an impossible dream,

the relinquishing of the myth of entitlement, a fantastic unreality
you accept as absolute law and basis of all truth because
you forget quite why and never knew and you know it. Admit!
 
Crazy old Rousseau was trembling as he spoke. Voltaire
was already bored. Clark Coolidge was playing
with the straw sticking out of his nostril. The straw was bright pink.
 
The funeral was starting in ten uh-oh make that five minutes
and Daddy Drumpf was still only on his second scoop. 
Harambe would never again return to this world.

The statues representing these figures knew it was always going
to be another long night in the sculpture garden. This much and little else they knew.
Outside the tall metal gates, the audience continued to insist
 
it alone was still alive. That part was also necessary for the story.
Young Voltaire, gaining strength, was now speaking rapidly, too rapidly for anyone
outside the zoo to make sense of what he was saying. That part too.



A boy looks at a glass bowl showing the world outside upside down in a museum in Germany, Sunday, June 4, 2017. Photo Guido Kirchner/dpa: image via AP Images @AP_Images, 4 June 2017 

IMG_8484_small_F | by Paul Russell99

IMG_8484_small_F  Weymouth, February 2017
: photo by Paul Russell, 12 March 2017

Pieces | by _Joris Dewe_

[Untitled]: photo by Joris Dewe, 26 May 2017

Pieces | by _Joris Dewe_

[Untitled]: photo by Joris Dewe, 26 May 2017

Pieces | by _Joris Dewe_

[Untitled]: photo by Joris Dewe, 26 May 2017

Untitled | by Pau Buscató

Jaipur 2017: photo by Pau Buscató, 12 March 2017

Untitled | by Pau Buscató

Banaras 2017: photo by Pau Buscató, 6 March 2017
 
Union Pacific | by fhoerr

Union Pacific. Los Angeles River.: photo by fred hoerr, 14 August 2016

Union Pacific | by fhoerr

Union Pacific. Los Angeles River.: photo by fred hoerr, 14 August 2016

Union Pacific | by fhoerr

Union Pacific. Los Angeles River.: photo by fred hoerr, 14 August 2016

North Main, Los Angeles | by fhoerr

North Main, Los Angeles. California, USA.: photo by fred hoerr, 2 April 2017

North Main, Los Angeles | by fhoerr

North Main, Los Angeles. California, USA.: photo by fred hoerr, 2 April 2017

North Main, Los Angeles | by fhoerr

North Main, Los Angeles. California, USA.: photo by fred hoerr, 2 April 2017

Winston Street | by fhoerr

Winston Street. Los Angeles.: photo by fred hoerr, 22 April 2017

Winston Street | by fhoerr

Winston Street. Los Angeles.: photo by fred hoerr, 22 April 2017

Winston Street | by fhoerr

Winston Street. Los Angeles.: photo by fred hoerr, 22 April 2017

Los Angeles | by fhoerr

Los Angeles. Downtown.: photo by fred hoerr, 18 July 2016

Los Angeles | by fhoerr

Los Angeles. Downtown.: photo by fred hoerr, 18 July 2016

Los Angeles | by fhoerr

Los Angeles. Downtown.
: photo by fred hoerr, 18 July 2016



#India An Indian labourer works at a brick manufacturing factory situated on the outskirts of Bangalore. Photo @manjunath_kiran
: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardAFP, 4 June 2017

american trucker | by el-toro

american trucker [Mohave, Arizona]: photo by el-toro, 26 April 2017

american trucker | by el-toro

american trucker [Mohave, Arizona]: photo by el-toro, 26 April 2017

american trucker | by el-toro

american trucker [Mohave, Arizona]: photo by el-toro, 26 April 2017


#Mexico A piece of art with a reflective surface hangs of the US-Mexican border fence during a protest in Tijuana in Mexico. Photo @GmoAriasC
: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardAFP, 4 June 2017


white clapboard | by e l e c t r o l i t e

white clapboard: photo by shannon richardson, 12 May 2017

CB Shop | by e l e c t r o l i t e

CB Shop: photo by shannon richardson, 26 April 2017

IMG_8382 | by Cesar Moriel

IMG_8382 Perryton Tx: photo by Cesar Moriel, 15 April 2015

Portland, OR | by Cheer up, Kafka.

Portland, OR: photo by Jeff Silverstein, 2 June 2017

Portland, OR | by Cheer up, Kafka.

Portland, OR: photo by Jeff Silverstein, 2 June 2017

Portland, OR | by Cheer up, Kafka.

Portland, OR: photo by Jeff Silverstein, 2 June 2017

Untitled | by Beerbrain/Ronny Perry

[Chattanooga]: photo by Beerbrain/Ronny Perry, 21 May 2017

Untitled | by Beerbrain/Ronny Perry

[Chattanooga]: photo by Beerbrain/Ronny Perry, 21 May 2017

Untitled | by Beerbrain/Ronny Perry

[Chattanooga]: photo by Beerbrain/Ronny Perry, 21 May 2017


Nigeria A man carries a sewing machine as he offers his tailoring services in Ojudu Berger Photo @mlongari
: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardAFP, 4 June 2017
 
Kingdom City | by ADMurr

Kingdom City [Missouri]: photo by Andrew Murr, 27 May 2017


An Indian boy sorts through trash next to a greater adjutant stork, at a big garbage dump in the northeastern state of Assam #environmentday
: image via AFP Photo @AFPphoto, 4 June 2017


_SDI7002 | by Archie Tucker

 _SD17002 [santa monica]: photo by Archie Tucker, 1 January 2012

_SDI7002 | by Archie Tucker

 _SD17002 [santa monica]: photo by Archie Tucker, 1 January 2012

_SDI7002 | by Archie Tucker

 _SD17002 [santa monica]: photo by Archie Tucker, 1 January 2012

Yazoo City | by benft

 Yazoo City. As seen from the passing train "The City of New Orleans". [Mississippi]: photo by Ben Thompson, 5 November 2016

Untitled | by bnzai9

 [SE Portland]: photo by bnzai9, 28 December 2016


#China People hold candles at a vigil in Hong Kong to mark the 28th anniversary of the 1989 Tiananmen crackdown in Beijing. Photo Isaac Lawrence: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardAFP, 4 June 2017


#India An Indian farmer dries harvested rice from a paddy field at Burha Mayong village. Photo @BoroBiju: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardAFP, 4 June 2017

4 comments:

VINCENT FARNSWORTH said...

Hong Kong, the only place such demonstrations are allowed in the world's largest dictatorship.
Screamin' Jay knew https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PaTHMO-XmV4

TC said...

Rousseau had a shotgun consciousness too, they say.

Hilton said...

Wonderful poem

TC said...

Thanks, Hilton.