Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/04/07
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Greg Locke <locke@straylight.ca> wrote: >Life is politics, cameras are political tools, pictures are political statements.... That's an interesting personal viewpoint, but I wonder how widely accepted it is? Personally, I spent a fair bit of the easter weekend using my non-politicals tool to take dozens of non-political pictures of my new puppy playing in the garden, and taking dozens more of one of my favourite subjects - my wife. I was amused by Marc's comment that Thucydides has Pericles saying, "[W]e do not say that the person who takes no interest in politics minds his own business; we say he has no business here at all." I wonder how many slaves Pericles owned in order to lead the lifestyle that he did. If the poor guy had been faced with the sort of work deadlines which are routine for the late 1990s, and had to help Mrs Pericles with the domestic chores, not to mention having to do his emails everyt morning) perhaps those contraints would have cramped his political life a little. The reality probably is that some people are interested in politics, and that interest colours/influences their views of live, and helps define what part of human activity they see as being political. Personally, I trained as an engineer, a profession not renowned for its political zeal or activity, and many of whose practioners would see only a limited part of their life as being political. Certainly if you see me on an airliner or train with "my nose in a book" that book it more likely to be Marc James Small than Thucydides! Regards, Doug Richardson