Another brilliant photo/commentary on contemporary society. Can someone tell me just what is so mesmerizing about cell phones? Could it be that we've made the real world so ugly that people need to exit it by any means available.
About 10 years ago,pursuent to my natural laziness and against my will, I was dragged by my Biology professor on a field trip to the Maraposa Redwood grove in the Sierra Nevada mountains east of Fresno California. These trees are remarkable in every way (this is where the famous cut-out of a tree allows a car to drive through the tree. That tree is still alive. A small testament to human stupidity.)
The beauty of that area (I think it is a state park) is astonishing. (Although I imagine when the Pacific storms role in it becomes a nightmare.) I was not consciously aware of what a travesty we have made of our world until I visited that park and saw what the natural world really was left "unoccupied" and "unexploited" and "ravaged" so that some *sshole could make money off of it. The native Americans, by and large, were right. The ownership of "private" property has turned us into zombies.
Even my own age group, boomers are increasingly engrossed in these things despite being in each other's company. Imagine hundreds of millions of people all over the planet doing the exact same thing at any one moment and the picture takes on a very strange aspect indeed.
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Another brilliant photo/commentary on contemporary society. Can someone tell me just what is so mesmerizing about cell phones? Could it be that we've made the real world so ugly that people need to exit it by any means available.
About 10 years ago,pursuent to my natural laziness and against my will, I was dragged by my Biology professor on a field trip to the Maraposa Redwood grove in the Sierra Nevada mountains east of Fresno California. These trees are remarkable in every way (this is where the famous cut-out of a tree allows a car to drive through the tree. That tree is still alive. A small testament to human stupidity.)
The beauty of that area (I think it is a state park) is astonishing. (Although I imagine when the Pacific storms role in it becomes a nightmare.) I was not consciously aware of what a travesty we have made of our world until I visited that park and saw what the natural world really was left "unoccupied" and "unexploited" and "ravaged" so that some *sshole could make money off of it. The native Americans, by and large, were right. The ownership of "private" property has turned us into zombies.
Even my own age group, boomers are increasingly engrossed in these things despite being in each other's company. Imagine hundreds of millions of people all over the planet doing the exact same thing at any one moment and the picture takes on a very strange aspect indeed.
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