You can call me a pessimist and a hysterical person, I don’t mind. Even during the tight and bloated by the corrupted media days, when they screamed from the TV screens the growing numbers of already dead and their crazy predictions about not surviving percents of our civilization, I stayed cool and calm, never stayed stuck at home, and ignored alcogel.
But happening now is really upset me more than ever. From one side – most of the country just forget the terrible 2020 – as if on command – yesterday there was a virus, where positive tests, seriously ill, massive deaths. But in one day everything has gone. Don’t get me wrong, I’m really happy that we have done this without the predicted “humanity end”. But I less happy to feel that we lost our freedom of logical and independent decision-making by ourselves.
This series is a mix of the photographs i took recently. Some of them from the streets of the cities I visited. Another part was taken in the abandoned “Girl House” – the compound of the abandoned girl’s house is an enclave of the Tel Aviv municipality, which was established in 1930 and boarded school for at-risk youth. In 2003, the boarding school closed, abandoned, and additionally heavily vandalized.
So, why I used these images of the abandoned additionally to the photographs from the streets of the AFTER Covid-19 streets? It’s my allegory to the moral death we fallen when rejoiced at our liberation that we survived this long year of the accordion method of governing the country and naive people.
Who remember today this hysterical warning of our PM somewhere in 1 April 2020 about: “If it reinfects, the virus could ‘end humanity,’ Netanyahu reportedly warned MKs” – (“the source”). The neglect, confusion and stupidity can end the humanity – not the invisible virus.
Partially taken from my personal blog post The world is crazy – the world is lost.
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Lovely shots, as always.
Our 'lockdown' here was much like the curfews we got when protests got lively; almost completely unenforced and mostly in name only. It's wild now that even those 'restrictions' are gone, especially when you skim the news and see how many are still dying of covid elsewhere.
My father once told me 'sometimes life teaches the best lessons' and one way or another I'm afraid that a lot of people are going to be learning those lessons soon.
Stay safe my friend. Aside from Bibi being gone nothing I'm seeing coming out of your neck of the woods appears to bode well (and calls to mind bad memories from last year).
Who says being a pessimist is a bad thing? It has been my experience that it's the safer bet. Speaking of pessimism and freedom, are you familiar with Max Stirner? To paraphrase badly, freedom is just an idea(spook) in peoples' heads and you only have as much as you create for yourself. For me at least there is some solace to be found in that when the outlook is on the bleak side.
Stay safe, shoot straight, and don't forget to duck!
yes, you're right in what you're saying here - freedom is in our mind and we are only the owners of our freedom. I really hope for some changes here, still not sure about so don't attend the celebrations about
I want to see this government surviving a few months.
i will check Max Stirner, thank you
Nice storytelling of not so nice times...
thank you for taking a look and the kind words
really not nice period of time
The happiest moment for me is when we later regained our freedom of movement all in the name of covid 19
I see.. the "freedom of movement" is still not here. Maybe only inside the country.
Yeah sure