Milky Way

 

Glimpse of Park Avenue

 

A Rustic Window in Autumn

 

The Refinement and Repose of a Simple Sake Flask

 

Industrial Monet -- Corrosion on Steel Plate Over an Electrical Utility Box

 

The Worn and Tarnished Saftey Features of a Common Toilet Stall

 

Architecture in Kyoto, Japan

 

Bathroom Assortment in the style of Rothko

 

Illuminated Grid of Glass

 

The Main Street in Nagoka, Japan

 

Otherworldly Sunset...or Rise

(I realize this is horridly amateurish but I hope I've at least struck a mood of sorts).

 

Land of the Rising...Beverage Machine

 

The Pretty Building Where Lawyers Plan New Methods to Control People

 

Spinning Wheel Thing...or something like that

 

Rejection of Symmetry

 

Socialism Will Make Your Flowers Cooperate More!

 

Learning to Cooperate with the Mob...to become a better citizen...

 

Inquisition

 

Conversation Between Archetypally Diverse Components

 

Medly of Pristine and Decrepit Artifacts

 

Photo of Damage -- the City was Literally Leveled -- to Nagaoka, Japan at the end of World War II

(The exhibit of war damage in Nagaoka, Japan is not longer on display on Nagaoka's main street but remains on display in a war-damage museum in the downtown area -- Nov. 30, 2009)

Places throughout the world saw massive death and damage in what became "total war." This is -- and will be -- the result of appeasing authoritarian states. The easy analysis is to point to the U.S. for bombing innocent civilians in the instance depicted here. A more sober appraisal will ask why we continue to appease dictatorships and authoritarian governments in the assumption that we are "preventing" things such as this from happening when in fact this is the natural result of letting thugs have their way with their own people and free societies around them.

(see August 2009 archive to continue this photo topic)

 

Graphic Well-rendered Painting Depicting the Horrors of World War II (in Nagaoka, Japan)

 

The Horrors of War

Nagaoka, Japan, as depicted in a painting on a poster displayed in downtown Nagaoka. Nagaoka was bombed by the United States at the beginning of August just before the end of World War II. Like many places throughout the world at the time, thousands of civilians were killed. The killers were all parties involved but the war began due to the rise and consolidation of power by authoritarian cliques in Japan, Germany, and Italy...just so ya know (!).

 

Poster / Painting of the Horrors Inflicted on Nagaoka, Japan

...on display on the main street of Nagaoka -- a few blocks away from a memorial to Admiral Yamamoto who led the raid on Pearl Harbor.


 

Nagaoka War Damage Exhibit Hall

...Again, blocks away from a memorial and museum to Admiral Yamamoto who (reluctently) led the raid on Pearl Harbor which began the war between Japan and the U.S. in World War II.

(This post is a continuation of others in the August Archives. Please see the full August 2009 Archives -- left side, scroll down -- to view other photos related to this issue.).