Chaco Canyon 5--squashed
5. I’m not in this picture. Neither is Lorna, but the camera is. My iPhone 11 is on the Rotator. The large circle near the top of the phone is the Sandmarc fisheye lens. The reason I point out the camera’s presence is that you can always find it at the center of these 360/720 spherical panoramas.
These days, you can almost always find a camera at the center of whatever picture you’re looking at. There is an operator taking the picture, but the camera is producing the actual image. After that, there is usually a machine, a computer processing the picture.
The Anasazi did not have the benefit of machine presence in camera form, and look at what it got them. The wreckage is strewn for miles around. We have no real evidence, no real proof of who ate whom, who killed whom, so all we can do is speculate. I am tired of the human apologists who think this situation with no objective evidence is just fine. I am tired of those who say objectivity doesn’t exist. Oh yeah? I tell you now and I’ll say it again: Without machines recording our actions in some form, what happened to the Anasazi will happen to us, just as sure as night follows the day.
Think about it: without machines taking pictures, you are free to obfuscate and cover up the evidence as those you love are eaten away, as the beautiful suburb you live in hides you from discovery, as the fabled city that masks your pride becomes worse than the lowest ring of Dante’s hell.
I tell you now and I’ll say it again: Without machines recording our actions in some form, what happened to the Anasazi will happen to us, just as sure as night follows…
Chaco Canyon 5--squashed
5. I’m not in this picture. Neither is Lorna, but the camera is. My iPhone 11 is on the Rotator. The large circle near the top of the phone is the Sandmarc fisheye lens. The reason I point out the camera’s presence is that you can always find it at the center of these 360/720 spherical panoramas.
These days, you can almost always find a camera at the center of whatever picture you’re looking at. There is an operator taking the picture, but the camera is producing the actual image. After that, there is usually a machine, a computer processing the picture.
The Anasazi did not have the benefit of machine presence in camera form, and look at what it got them. The wreckage is strewn for miles around. We have no real evidence, no real proof of who ate whom, who killed whom, so all we can do is speculate. I am tired of the human apologists who think this situation with no objective evidence is just fine. I am tired of those who say objectivity doesn’t exist. Oh yeah? I tell you now and I’ll say it again: Without machines recording our actions in some form, what happened to the Anasazi will happen to us, just as sure as night follows the day.
Think about it: without machines taking pictures, you are free to obfuscate and cover up the evidence as those you love are eaten away, as the beautiful suburb you live in hides you from discovery, as the fabled city that masks your pride becomes worse than the lowest ring of Dante’s hell.
I tell you now and I’ll say it again: Without machines recording our actions in some form, what happened to the Anasazi will happen to us, just as sure as night follows…