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Just your average fellow trying to survive on this topsy turvy blue marble.
It's sucked for a long time, maybe forever. But at least we get to smirk at all the happy accidents together. For instance, what compelled some youth in the late '60s or early '70s to print this protest art on the back of a industrial vacuum cleaner store sign.
29.01.2025 03:01 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0im the person that posted the dead of winter poster on the film set. Still getting used to the format and slowly transitioning to blue sky!
27.01.2025 14:45 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0The transcript is in the alt description
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Red and blue American flag with the stripes being lines of text inspired by the declaration of independence printed on white paper 1970s protest art from my late fatherβs collection. Artist unknown. These words are more pertinent than ever. It reads: "When in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume, among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the laws of nature and nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to separation. We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights; that among these are Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness. That to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, that whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or to abolish it, and to institute a new government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such government, and to provide new guards for their future security."
1970s protest art from my late fatherβs collection. Artist unknown.
These words are more pertinent than ever. If anyone is interested in the transcription, i will try to post in comments. Still figuring bluesky out...
