(J. Hesmondhalgh)

Soundtrack: Flesh Field - "voice of dissent"

"...So just give in

And follow the drones

A nation of consumption

Shouldnt challenge its role

Just believe, and fall in line

Freedom is a privilege

Thats been left behind ..."

in an age of terrorism, violence, hate and ignorance, people seem to think about protecting our freedom by taking it away piece by piece for the sake of "security". Mesmerized and numb amidst the endless stream of entertainment provided by mass media, we watch in apathy how people turn our society of freedom into a society of oppression, control, surveillance and fear. And so far, we do not really care... Some days ago, German government has agreed upon a law to force telecommunication companies into long-term retention of all sorts of communication data for the sake of "fighting terrorism", and the next steps already are clearly outlined: Preventive surveillance, a "trojan horse" software developed by government and security services in order to have hidden access to personal computers while they're online, massive use of biometrical data (fingerprints, ...) in personal ID cards and passports and so on... we're merrily building "1984"...

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“The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment.”

Robert M. Hutchins

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“Do the difficult things while they are easy and do the great things while they are small. A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.”

Lao Tzu

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LET'S FACE THE MUSIC AND DANCE – DIANA KRALL

Time is a beautiful illusion

it cannot be quantified

as I sweep away last year's patterns

a residue resides

a little broken fading mosaic

veined with cracks and studded with tears

so small and fragile, I lift it up

and clasp it to my heartfelt fears

it's difficult to let the old ways go

it's hard to step into the new

but it's important to preserve sweet memories

and leave behind those that made me feel blue

Spring is a time for gentle renewal

moving on with life and regrowth

static is a negative charge of apathy

forward motion a positive oath

Softly I whisper my daily mantra

today is the first day of the rest of my life

and knowing this brings me succour and comfort

to my once ailing heart that was wrought with strife

ring out the bells; new change is here

there's a spring in my step; there's no room for fear

for today I begin an exciting new time

making new memories for this soft heart of mine

I put down the tiny fragment that represents broken dreams

cushioned in velvet; swaddled in reams

there it can't hurt me; I go forward; feel free

to walk in the sunlight; the shadows behind me.

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Lost inside a memory

Waiting in my half-life

Radiated energy

I get ready for the last flight

Brought me to be my own disease

When love and hate collide

Why not give me another try?

Just stay alive

My heart is cold

You bleed me dry

And I feel no more

There's no escape

You're my overdose

Into the shape

Of my evil ghost

You've got me on my knees

Worn-out and paralyzed

Take the emotions out of me

Until I fade before your eyes

Full of apathy

The walls come crashing down

Evil Ghost

I wanna run from the apathy

from the questioning tounges

and eyes that just won't come off

and get a job in a industry

where a smile's not required

and complaints are always the same

cause baby you must be so fed up

with a boy that keeps telling you

how much good he's gonna do

when all that is happening 'round here

is happening in here

and nothing gets out there

except for the truth

it's up to you

cause I'm absolutely numb

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Without emotion, it is impossible to transform darkness into light and apathy into motion. (Carl Gustav Jung)

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I was asked to do a series of images taking visitors through the journey of my own story told with the theme Wanderlust. This is my interpretation. My journey of mind, self-discovery, the daily fight to overcome the fear of my current state of fragility.

This series has me with a broken bulb as a head and a brain full of moths. Two images have me alone wandering at dusk using the light play with moths casting shadows blocking my faint glow.

I don't know if any of you can understand that when I hold my camera in RL I am fearless. I am confident, focused, and excited. I feel alive! I would wake excited to relive those moments as I fumbled to retrieve my SD card from my Nikon. Photography was a daily high. I miss it so much. I miss people and gatherings. I miss seeing my friends, my family. I miss seeing smiles. It's a deep ache that won't go away and it scares me.

Seems I was so busy trying not to die from Covid that I stopped doing the things that made me feel alive.

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So If you see the girl I used to be

Could you tell her that I'd like to find her

And if you see the shell that's left of me

Could you spare her a little kindness

'Cause I've been high and I've been low

I've spent a thousand nights alone, tryna hold on tight

And feelings come but they won't go

Please won't someone take me home before I lose my mind

Am I broken?

Am I flawed?

Do I deserve a shred of worth or am I

Just another fake, fucked up lost cause?

And am I human?

Or am I something else?

'Cause I'm so scared and there's no one there

To save me from the nightmare that I call myself

I've tried everything and anything

But nothing seems to work quite like it should

Between the madness and the apathy

Seems there's nothing left inside of me that's good

'Cause I've been high and I've been low

I've spent a thousand nights alone, tryna hold on tight

And feelings come but they won't go

Please won't someone take me home before I lose my mind

Thanks so much to Ella Pavlona for including me ♥

I am honored to have again been invited to join this project displayed at Mindful Cove.

Art as Mindfulness: Wanderlust

20.02.2022 - 27.03.2022

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My lovely apathy i think she looks good with no brows hahah since her regular one are shit lol.....hmmmm lol so what do you guys thinkssss

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Memories evade me, of when the world was warm. Days past when the sparkle of magic was a delight. I could feel the beat of the drum, steady thumping it's rhythm in my soul. Time passes though, as it does, and I find myself forgetting what it was like to kiss lips not already gone cold. I've lost the excitement of the endless possibilities that lay in uncertainty. There was a time that I longed for it all back, with every bit of my being. Now as the nights grow longer, I struggle to feel even that.

Science may have found a cure for most evils; but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all - the apathy of human beings. Helen Keller

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Indifference /noun/...

...absence of feeling, apathy, small importance, dispassion, disinterest...

to all what's going on around her - all these definitions I saw from "Niagara-gull"

and (of course) full ignorance of me and what I'm really doing there with my camera...

This image was created for The Dictionary of Image the group I love and will return to more and more again.

Much better viewed large.

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is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment :-(

Robert M. Hutchins, "A Letter to the Reader," The Great Conversation: The Substance of a Liberal Education, 1952

HMM! Words Matter! Truth Matters!

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“There are no good or evil people. There is only a great, unfathomable mob trampling itself underfoot. The life-giving sources of the old morality have dried up and vanished in the sands of oblivion. There's no other source to draw from, no place to refresh oneself. There is no example, no inspiration. It is night. A night of indifference, apathy, chaos.”

― Tadeusz Konwicki

The place where apathy will lead us. Or to put it more plainly, we must reject apathy in the face of injustice.

and an occasional passing flicker of horror or indignation :-)

Conor Cruise O'Brien

IMPEACH and REMOVE!!

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A lack of any feeling about self or other, a mind-state that gives rise to boredom, rancor, apathy, and a passive, inert, or sluggish behaviour. Physically, acedia is fundamentally with a cessation of motion and an indifference to work; it finds expression in laziness, idleness, and indolence.

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BNSF 6150 leads a northbound coal empty through the Greenland Open Space in Greenland, CO while a snow-covered Pikes Peak rises to the sky some 25 miles away.

This is my first train photo taken with my actual camera gear in almost 11 months. Why the delay? Life stuff, interest in other things, and a general apathy for the hobby anymore to be quite honest. I thought it might be a phase I was going through with not getting out trackside, but as more and more time passed, I realized I just didn't care.

With that being said, I did enjoy this particular morning and had myself a nice little chase of a train with much better power than this ubiquitous GEVO!

Photo-composite digital art of colorful Portland, Oregon.

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Somewhere along the way I lost what I had found.

Swimming in a sea of apathy and familiar sights and sounds

-thesceneaesthetic

"Sometimes after an hour of apathy, my strange and beautiful companion would take my hand and hold it with a fond pressure, renewed again and again; blushing softly, gazing in my face with languid and burning eyes, and breathing so fast that her dress rose and fell with the tumultuous respiration."

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When you feel down and can't act. When you see other people work and just can't lift a hand to make something as it doesn't good enough to be compared. When you slowly drown into apathy. Stop and clear your mind. Don't look on others with envy but see their vision as inspiration to express yourself.

"Everything will be okay in the end. If it's not okay, it's not the end."

(I'm in the booth on seafront near benches)

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But, then, a moment comes like a thunderbolt, in which a flash of the undisclosed rends our dark apathy asunder. It is full of overpowering brilliance, like a point in which all moments of life are focused or a thought which outweighs all thoughts ever conceived of... Apathy turns to splendor unawares. The ineff¢ble has shuddered itself into the soul.... We are penetrated by His insight.

-Abraham Joshua Heschel, (as quoted in Edward K. Kaplan, Spiritual Radical: Abraham Joshua Heschel in America, 1940-1972)

It is our complete self, not just one or other aspect of ourselves, he claimed. The imagination is not an aesthetic faculty. It is not a single or special faculty. It is all the resources of man, all his faculties, his whole history, his whole life, and his whole heritage brought to bear upon the concrete world inside and outside of himself, to form images of the world, and thus to find it, cope with it, shape it, even make it. The task of the imagination is to imagine the real … The religious imagination … tries literally to imagine things with God … The imagination is really the only way we have of handling the world...

... Imagination, if it is in prison and has tried every exit, does not panic or move into apathy but sits down to try to envision another way out. It is always slow to admit that all the facts are in, that all the doors have been tried, and that it is defeated. It is not so much that it has vision as that it is able to wait, to wait for a moment of vision which is not yet there, for a door that is not yet locked. It is not overcome by the absoluteness of the present moment.

-Fr William F. Lynch SJ (1908–87),Christ and Prometheus

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Abandoned and decaying buildings dot every small town in rural Ireland. Ask why, and you'll get multiple theories, of which apathy is at the root of them all.

I think I might have finally managed to identify this larva.

4 years ago I posted it with this comment: A combination of Covid restrictions, miserable weather and apathy have lead me to try and clean up some old photos. I came across this snap and have no idea what it is, hence I'm posting it to see if anyone can identify it for me

Los niños son ávidos constructores: mientras construyes miras hacia adelante, te ilusiona el próximo peldaño. Envejecemos cuando la mente se enrosca en experiencias pasadas, cuando el presente se convierte en apatía y no se mira el futuro con ilusión.

Esta foto habla de eso: siempre es mejor tener "hambre de vida" que intoxicarse con recuerdos.

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Children are avid builders: while you build sights forward, the next step delights you. We grow old when the mind coils in past experiences, when the present becomes apathy and the future is not looked at with illusion.

This picture talks about that: it is always better to have "hunger for life" than to get intoxicated with memories.

"Gone, thought I lost my mind

Creature without a spine

Took back what should be mine

Thrown in the deep end

Trouble, I gained a voice

I’m not your shiny toy

Left me without a choice

What were you thinking?

Dig my grave

Take my blame

There’s no love lost

When I’m the strong one

Never changed

Gone astray

There’s no love lost

When you’re the wrong one

I’ll never be the same

Locked in your misеry

Needed some room to breathе

Cut ties so easily

I’ll be my hero

Grasping for sanity

Won’t be your casualty

Done with this apathy

I’m back from the dead

Dig my grave

Take my blame

There’s no love lost

When I’m the strong one

Never changed

Gone astray

There’s no love lost

When you’re the wrong one

I’ll never be the same

I’ll never be the same

Never, never, never, never gonna give the power back to you

Never, never, never, never gonna give the power back to you

Never, never, never, never gonna give the power back to you

Never, never, never, never gonna give the power back to you

Dig my grave

Take my blame

There’s no love lost

When I’m the strong one

Never changed

Gone astray

There’s no love lost

When you’re the wrong one

I’ll never be the same

I’ll never be the same

I’ll never be the same"

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I've found a way

To feel immortal

To feel alive

I've found a way

To kill the boredom

Until the apathy subsides

We all wonder where the cancer's growing

So close to hell you see the embers glowing

I've found a way

To be myself

To free myself

Oh don't say

Don't say the party is over

Don't say that this is the end

Don't feel alive when I'm sober

So I'll drink myself to death

Don't fool yourself

You sleep with serpents

Although they bite

Don't fool yourself

You drink the poison

You know your enemy won't die

Have we doomed ourselves to live as servants?

One thousand cigarettes your lungs are burnin'

Don't fool yourself

You wound yourself

With your last breath

Oh you'll beg

Nowhere to run

Nowhere to hide

I'm on my own

Nowhere to run

Nowhere to hide

It's all I know

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Over My Head (Cable Car)

Song by The Fray

I never knew

I never knew that everything was falling through

That everyone I knew was waiting on a cue

To turn and run when all I needed was the truth

But that's how it's got to be

It's coming down to nothing more than apathy

I'd rather run the other way than stay and see

The smoke and who's still standing when it clears

Everyone knows I'm in

Over my head, over my head

With eight seconds left in overtime

She's on your mind, she's on your mind

Let's rearrange

I wish you were a stranger I could disengage

Just say that we agree and then never change

Soften a bit until we all just get along

But that's disregard

Find another friend and you discard

As you lose the arguments in a cable car

Hanging above as the canyon comes between

Everyone knows I'm in

Over my head, over my head

With eight seconds left in overtime

She's on your mind, she's on your mind

Everyone knows I'm in

Over my head, over my head

With eight seconds left in overtime

She's on your mind, she's all on

And suddenly I become a part of your past

I'm becoming the part that don't last

I'm losing you and its effortless

Without a sound we lose sight of the ground

In the throw around

Never thought that you wanted to bring it down

I won't let it go down till we torch it ourselves

And everyone knows I'm in

Over my head, over my head

With eight seconds left in overtime

She's on your mind, she's on your mind

Everyone knows she's on your mind

Everyone knows I'm in over my head

I'm in over my head, I'm over my...

Everyone knows I'm in

Over my head, over my head

With eight seconds left in overtime

She's on your mind, she's on your mind

Thanks for all your comments and faves, much appreciated as

always.

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