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Children of the Revolution
Posted by MadScientist (Düsseldorf, Germany) on 22 September 2008 in Architecture and Portfolio.
The French Revolution didn't change anything. There is still a caste of people, who, like aristocrats at the king's court, don't know anything about the world and the results of their conduct; their world view ends at the tip of their nose.
A postponed nose job is the teaser of an unmasking WSJ article. Unmasking in two ways: for one thing the persons described here have absolutely no insight about problems apart from their own. There is not even the slightest hint for sympathy for the many people losing their jobs, their houses, their earnings; not for the economical and political landslide the crisis has triggered; not for the many billion dollars that American taxpayers will have to pay for the criminal games done by members of exactly this caste. For another thing, the article is unmasking because of its complete absence of animadversion on the attitude of the portrayed people. Astonishingly these people and their apple-polishers can be found in a country with a long democratic tradition, years before the French Revolution. Well, folks: your money is going to here, you're saving these people from selling their chi-chi. Do you still belive that there's no money left for education, the environment or any social project, when there's enough public money for trash companies and pennystocks? (via)
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The image shows another view from St. Andreas, Düsseldorf. We're looking at the cross-ribbed vault, showing the depictions of early Baroque Christianity during the Counter-Reformation. (No, I was not lying on the floor.)
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