I approach your side
still afraid
of the distance
and the closeness
Day 3141, side.
Daily picture, PoetryDay 3140, me.
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The bars that keep me in
are just symbolic
and I know that
it stands for me
Day 3139, crossing borders.
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Xenophobia, fear and contempt of strangers or foreigners or of anything designated as foreign, or a conviction that certain foreign individuals and cultures represent a threat to the authentic identity of one’s own nation-state and cannot integrate into the local society peacefully. The term xenophobia derives from the ancient Greek words xenos (meaning “stranger”) and phobos (meaning “fear”). Xenophobia implies the perception that not only is it impossible for certain people designated as foreign to integrate into one’s own society but also that they pose a threat to the integrity of that society. (https://www.britannica.com/science/xenophobia)
Day 3138, Tears without eyes.
Daily picture, My thoughts
The people who murdered in the name of the state just wanted a better life. They voted for the man with big ideas and were unaware of the path this blind obedience takes them. Their lives while working in a slaughterhouse for humans were not different than their lives when they worked in a slaughterhouse for animals. Daily life is daily life; we all filter out the world we don’t want to see.
We are all different in how we look and what we’ve been through and somewhat different in our wants and needs. Some of us want to find our own way, and others just want to follow. Most of us fall somewhere in between. We have to live together knowing that a quarter of the people in our society have no problems rounding up their neighbors if they are ordered to when shame is taken away. Those are the people who have no rationale for why they obey the strong man, the man who knows “the right words.”
Do you obey?
The aim of totalitarian education has never been to instill convictions but to destroy the capacity to form any.
Hannah Arendt
Treblinka: Testimonies of Nazi SS
Willi Mentz:
Day 3137, what do you see?
Daily picture, My thoughts
People who don't know the whole story are often eager to fill in the details with added reasoning for the part they know. For most, having a partial opinion is more important than having no opinion.
Day 3136, doors.
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Friedrich Nietzsche
Human, All Too Human II
Mixed Opinions and Maxims
281 Doors. -Like the man, the child sees doors in everything that it experiences or learns: but for the former they are entrances, for the latter always only passageways.
Day 3135, or do you.
Daily picture, Poetry
If I lift you up
but only half of you
would you be graceful
or do you only work
up or down
as a whole
Day 3134, politics of the reasonable.
Daily picture, Poetry
There is black and white
but is the white
not just standing between
what is black
and grey
Day 3133, just before.
Daily picture, Poetry
Just before you closed
I stepped back
for to get a glance
of your insight
into me
Day 3132, even.
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Even the blind
will get confused
of what they don't see
Day 3131, two mirrors.
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Mirrors that don’t reflect
What would happen to a person born today where it is possible to make a monitor into a mirror that, through clever manipulation, shows all your movements but as another person? What if that reflection was the image of you with another gender or ethnicity?
What would our lives be like if this was done?
What do our reflections teach us?
Day 3130, reflectles.
Daily picture, Poetry
We all stand for something
behind something
and besides something
but those are not
standing there
the others
but mirrors
that don't reflect.
Day 3129, neighbour.
Daily picture, Quotes
Friedrich Nietzsche
Daybreak
Book II
1 1 8 What is our neighbour! – What do we understand to be the boundaries of our neighbour: I mean that with which he as it were engraves and impresses himself into and upon us? We understand nothing of him except the change in us of which he is the cause – our knowledge of him is like hollow space which has been shaped. We attribute to him the sensations his actions evoke in us, and thus bestow upon him a false, inverted positivity. According to our knowledge of ourself we make of him a satellite of our own system: and when he shines for us or grows dark and we are the ultimate cause in both cases – we nonetheless believe the opposite! World of phantoms in which we live! I nverted, upsidedown, empty world, yet dreamed of as full and upright!
Day 3128, want.
Daily picture, Poetry
I like to see where I can't reach
it gives me something
that I don't want
Day 3127, halfway.
Daily picture, Poetry
A bridge to some other side
those are the ones I like to take
at least halfway
Day 3126, view.
Daily picture, Poetry
I was standing here
where I actually wanted to sit
to watch the view
Nochrisis 