Regarding Quotes
Regarding Quote of the day
Compassion is an unstable emotion. It needs to be translated into action, or it withers.
Photographs objectify: they turn an event or a person into something that can be possessed.
Is there an antidote to the perennial seductiveness of war? And is this a question a woman is more likely to pose than a man? (Probably yes.)
Narratives can make us understand. Photographs do something else: they haunt us.
No "we" should be taken for granted when the subject is looking at other people's pain.
It is intolerable to have one's sufferings twinned with anybody else's.
To set their sufferings alongside the sufferings of another people was to compare them (which hell was worse?), demoting Sarajevo's martyrdom to a mere instance.
With time, many staged photographs turn back into historical evidence, albeit of an impure kind - like most historical evidence.
In fact, there are many uses of the innumerable opportunities a modern life supplies for regarding - at a distance, through the medium of photography - other people's pain.
The memory of war, however, like all memory, is mostly local.
Photographs that depict suffering shouldn't be beautiful, as captions shouldn't moralize.
Making suffering loom larger, by globalizing it, may spur people to feel they ought to "care" more.
Regarding solar power systems, the bigger the system is, the more likely it may go on fire.
The scary thing about the protective properties of dietary intake regarding abnormal human radiation exposures is that NASA has understood this for decades!
Given the blatant deceit regarding the biologically harmful effects of antenna towers, cell phones and WiFi radiation, one can only wonder what is going on with all of the other forms of radiation.