tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-654754338632526091.post6356683187754335683..comments2024-03-27T00:32:29.877-07:00Comments on Photos and Stuff: Documenting The Decayamolitorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15743439184763617516noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-654754338632526091.post-39557775959461166212016-08-29T12:24:54.523-07:002016-08-29T12:24:54.523-07:00If the photographs showed you the character of the...If the photographs showed you the character of the deceased, their quirks and triumphs and thick skull-ness, their sneering and laughing and crying, would you be interested? I would, those photographs would move me by showing me the person, not the empty shell that is soon to be. I believe there are four things that are our downfall: <br />We care for who we know, to the exclusion of everyone else (hence the photographs need to show me the person, not the occasion).<br />We normalize everything: what the many do equals to what is logical, correct and morally good.<br />We victimize the victim and side with the powerful<br />We compartmentalize, we see the thorn in someone's eye, but we don't see the pole sticking out of our eye.<br />Oh wellAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com