mass phenomena: two world wars, human beings framed by steel, aggression and anxiety, a crowd like this in my German hometown gives me a flashback into the times of dictatorship and brainless followers, of hate and racism - but nowadays it's only a fleamarket, the crowd only PLAYS to go back in time... - compare my set www.flickr.com/photos/frizztext/sets/72157608616414361/ RESTAURANT GALLERY / Ranking by dopiaza
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slipper buddha 55 months ago | reply
great series, outstanding!
Rita Crane Photography 54 months ago | reply
sepia tones and image look amazing in your gallery.
crowds? not my cup of tea ... and yes, during the rise of the Third Reich, they couldn't resist could they?
a fascinating and outrageous phenomenon that one has difficulty understanding.
i see it as an extension of the way children were raised in Europe: the father was a dictator in the home...easy to extend this to the society at large, perhaps. Add a big dose of racism, ignorance, brutality, and voila, you have aggressive crowds.
In the US we have had our KKK. Equally astonishing cruelty, and actually the Jim Crow laws in the United States were studied by your dictator, and used as a blueprint for the Nuremburg Laws.
China has had its share of mobs and cruelty, in its destruction of Tibet, and when the educated classes of China were destroyed by the so-called cultural revolution. Then there's Stalin's cruelty and his henchmen. How about Cortez in South America? And the insane dictators of Rome? How about the Inquisition?
Racism and inhumanity run deep, and their sad and bitter tale isn't over yet. But we can celebrate that the same country that gave us the despicable KKK has now given us a breath of fresh air: Obama. That is certainly progress!
Frizztext 54 months ago | reply
and you (and some decades before your father) worked to stay in a free country with an always open chance to change; and the teamworker obama even pulled hillary clinton back in his boat; george w. choose only a sort of house-slave, a brave war-princess, doing her master's will; a further level deeper in leadership history: a certain adolf only gave a chance to his schaeferhund...
Frizztext 41 months ago | reply
presented in a slide show too at
www.flickr.com/photos/frizztext/4227645773/
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