Black and White Theorem

‘And they laugh, after killing a man.’

How perplexing that photographs have become one of man’s creations with which we can celebrate all our vile vices. Perhaps it is narrow perspective considering the plethora of mass media inventions also engaged in the duping of man’s true sense of life and its bilious nature, but this gadget devised from the 1800's is proving quite benevolent.

The true purpose of mass media however, has never being to reveal and question horrors of our making and those inflicted upon us as minions and cogs in machinations of social systems based on exploitation, but solely to make us live with and accept these as common tragedies of failed human values, and utter disregard of life.

To this end, in cases of cinema for instance, we see news coverage that borders on becoming SNUFF content reminiscent of obscure voyeuristic films of tortures, mutilations and rapes.

Films and magazines are profiteering through conveyer-belt proliferation of consumerist sensationalisms, drawing mankind further away from a truer sense of being through an escapist bouquet.

And the rise of the self-destructive man leers its serpentine head from the behind luciferic winds of our technocratic age, desensitized to pain, tragedy, empathy and love.

A systematic lobotomy is being exercised on all societies on the planet; depriving us of inter-connectedness and unity – leaving a fragmented species so to speak, one vulnerable to extermination by a superior intelligence.

This advent of numbing man’s palate against the grotesquery of society can only mean that ‘an age of reformation’ of all fundamental systems and institutionalized values of our civilization is looming on the horizon like a constellation that predicts re-birth from death and cessation.

And taking into cognizance the concept that Black and White images lack a certain authenticity of representation due to absence of colour begs for me to differ, as I believe that black and white are colors, as they are degrees of light within the extremes of spectral combinations.

It might seem that the assumed lack of color acts to sort of tone down the degree and impact of explicit vulgarity, and underplay the brutality of actions that resulted in the mauled bodies captured on the images of concentration camps for instance.

Black and White veils the splendor and horrors of real life for some, but also can compel the viewer to search for meanings unbeknown. Black and white carries with it a tremendous power that requires the actuation of the faculty of recollection, yet so often than not contemporary man is engineered towards forgetting.