monochrome scarab lineart

2025-09-01 kal.,
of rulers and reality

overly detailed charms, Doi Mae Salong, Thailand

2016-08-21 – Nikon D3300
overly detailed charms, Doi Mae Salong, Thailand

José Feliciano – Ponte a Cantar ↗

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it is abundantly clear the ruling class has lost all touch with reality (assuming they ever had any contact in the first place) – beyond eat the rich, a more fitting punishment would be strip them of their status, of their ill-gotten gains and relegate them to lives of obscurity, their very names nothing more than the butt of jokes, force them back into the real world they despise so much – living in a trailer park or sharing a 2BR apartment with three other people – working two jobs, one at McDonalds, one at Walmart – having to juggle food stamps and coupons and no emergency savings like everyone else

And, for an instant, she stared directly into those soft blue eyes and knew, with an instinctive mammalian certainty, that the exceedingly rich were no longer even remotely human.

William Gibson, Count Zero (1987)

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the day after
the day before
the month before
the season before

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