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The beauty of photography, that very few people on this wretched containment board seem to understand or appreciate, is the vast accumulation of people and ideas and expertise and explorations and developments and inventions and techniques and passion, built up over the course of hundreds of years, that have gotten us to this point. Any photographer, and here I mean any trve photographer, can tap into this well-spring of energy and can feel it as a presence in their lives. It is an ahistorical, atemporal, energy, almost certainly egregoric, and one can make an active effort to harness it, enjoy it, bathe in it, feel comforted by it, be nourished by it, and, ultimately, to choose to become a part of it. Alternatively, one can arrogate all of existence to themselves, and look upon all of the accumulated photographic sacrifices made as uniquely irrelevant, and can choose to take photos (unlikely) as a useless, ephemeral testimony to their tawdry, thoughtless, thankless existence. The latter are techne-consumed, inhuman products of the world-factory dehumanization system, and earnestly believe that arguing about DPreview charts is a worthwhile expenditure of energy, while the former have the capacity to actually take photographs and become better humans thereby. If you are reading this, please just remember that every single day, you have this choice to make. I urge you to choose wisely.
