Compositions of Light and Literature – JMH

A Naval Style Chain Separates Men from Hummer

A Decorative Chain is all that separates these shoppers from utter doom at the hands of crazed suburbanite behind the wheel of one of those gas guzzling monstrosities, the GMC Hummer.  Apparently, not enough of these houses on wheels sold to keep GMC from asking the United States Government for a pile of cash to keep shoveling into the petroleum furnace, staving off the pangs of bankruptcy – where other failed businesses that aren’t sacred cows go to die, and be butchered, thus feeding the future.

Bloated animals die in nature.  Bloated ineffective corporations must die.  By bailing out General Motors we have prolonged our own pain.  Instead of investment in the future, we have propped up a dinosaur, a fossilized skeleton, that ought to be admired in a museum, doted upon by hard working men in Detroit who once built the wide horizon of the future with the fruit of their youth, but are now treading down a narrow weeded path through the dark forests of the past.  You are footing the bill to failed private enterprise.

GMC is insolvent.  It is a dinosaur post asteroid, a trilobyte in an ocean of bony fish.  It has been out competed for food, but we are sending it our scraps which are better spent training the workers, scientists, and engineers of the future.  Detroit is insolvent.  It is a city of the past.  It is a modern day Ur, Nineveh, or Babylon.  It has failed.  All that has to happen is the people need to move away to the cities of the future, ones that will survive this drought.  This is the Great Chain of Being.  The living must die to make way for those who have not come to live yet. The unadaptable, dead, and rotted ones stink everything up, and clot the thoroughfares with their corpses of yesteryear.

The woman in this photo is looking towards the future, her male company is looking scared towards the monster to their side.  It will come to pass.  Don’t lose your head.

“The Great Chain of Being” taken in Chicago in December 2008 by Jeffrey M. Hopkins, Copyright 2008 Jeffrey M. Hopkins, All Rights Reserved.

Photograph was taken with a Leica M3, Carl Zeiss Biogon T 28mm F/2.8 using Kodak C41 Process Black and White Film.

Jeffrey M. Hopkins is not only a photographer, he is the author of the novel Broken Under Interrogation, an in your face account of the War in Iraq, and the Special War on Drugs as fought by the American John Powers.