>>3014637I mean to say it was very surreal for me. The divisiveness of the people I met and photographed was really jarring. I'm a white, middle class, college educated man, and I while I've been surprised we elected the guy who was on the Apprentice as the leader of the largest country in the Western world, it didn't devastate me. We reap what we sow, and our country planted this divisiveness. That being said, the extremist views, of the far left and far right, were on display and neither were at all appealing. To imagine traveling thousands of miles just to tell someone that the out-going president is a scumbag or that the new president isn't "our president" was really bewildering to me. It went against every concept of unity and the strength I thought my country was based on. It wasn't pretty. It was surreal and I really couldn't believe I was in the capitol of the United States encountering this kind of hateful, spiteful rhetoric. It felt like I was in another world.
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>>3014641Monsters is a good episode but I feel it would've been even better if the UFO at the end was just an American military plane or similar.
Eye of the Beholder is something relevant to today. I don't believe, with the exception of some of the "alternative facts" level stuff, that we are heading toward an Orwellian future. I see parallels between our current situation and Brave New World. Protestors and activists are nice, but tweeting and hashtagging doesn't replace actual political conversations.
And Nightmare at 20,000 has the best ending.
>>3014642I find the symbolism in it myself. I can agree to be successful on a broad range, it would need to be more obvious. I find a lot of images are interesting but when coupled with a caption that highlights something you may not know or may have missed, can turn a good image into a much more insightful image. Taryn Simon's work and how she incorporates mixed media and esoteric avenues of information really blows me away
