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Notes from Underground

  And, indeed, I will ask on my own account here, an idle question: which is better—cheap happiness or exalted sufferings? Well, which is better?---Fyodor Dostoevsky ---Notes from Underground Fyodor Dostoevsky ---Notes from Underground Even now, so many years later, all this is somehow a very evil memory. I have many evil memories now, but ... hadn’t I better end my “Notes” here? I believe I made a mistake in beginning to write them, anyway I have felt ashamed all the time I’ve been writing this story; so it’s hardly literature so much as a corrective punishment.  Why, to tell long stories, showing how I have spoiled my life through morally rotting in my corner, through lack of fitting environment, through divorce from real life, and rankling spite in my underground world, would certainly not be interesting; a novel needs a hero, and all the traits for an anti-hero are expressly gathered together here, and what matters most, it all produces an unpleasant impression, for we are...
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Hope

To be human is to be a miracle of evolution conscious of its own miraculousness — a consciousness beautiful and bittersweet, for we have paid for it with a parallel awareness not only of our fundamental improbability but of our staggering fragility, of how physiologically precarious our survival is and how psychologically vulnerable our sanity. To make that awareness bearable, we have evolved a singular faculty that might just be the crowning miracle of our consciousness: hope.-- Erich Fromm


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WAR/PHOTOGRAPHY: Images of Armed Conflict and Its Aftermath




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Unknown Japanese photographer, War in Hawaiian Water. Japanese Torpedoes Attack Battleship Row, Pearl Harbor, December 7, 1941

"Firing Squad in Iran, 1979" (Jahangir Razmi, Annenberg Space for Photography)





Robert Capa’s famous “The Falling Soldier” was taken in 1936, a few weeks after the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War.





Dmitri Baltermants, Attack—Eastern Front WWII​, 1941






Victor maruschenko 






The Colours of Victory over Reichstag by Eugeny Khaldei






Dmitri Baltermants Grief, Kerch, Crimea Spring 1942






Kim Phuc, center, with her clothes torn off, flees with other South Vietnamese children after a misdirected American aerial napalm attack on June 8, 1972

Eddie Adams, Police Commander Nguyen Ngoc Loan killing Viet Cong operative Nguyen Van Lem, February 1,1968.





Arkady Shaikhet, ​Partisan Girl​, 1942




Henri Huet, ​The body of an American paratrooper killed in action in the jungle near the Cambodian border is raised up to an evacuation helicopter, Vietnam, 1966





Philip Jones Griffiths, ​Called "Little Tiger" for killing two "Viet Cong women cadre"—his mother and teacher, it was rumored, Vietnam​, 1968





Joe Rosenthal, Old Glory Goes Up on Mount Suribachi, Iwo Jima, February 23, 1945.



Louie Palu, U.S. Marine Gysgt. Carlos “OJ” Orjeula, Afe 31, Garmsir District, Helmand Province, Afghanistan. 



"Highway 13, 1971": David Hume Kennerly's photo of an ambulance going by a cross on the grave of a dead South Vietnamese soldier on Highway 13, South Vietnam. (David Hume Kennnerly / Annenberg Space for Photography)





Micha Bar-Am, ​The return from Entebbe, Ben-Gurion Airport, Israel, from the series ​Promised Land​, 1976



Sal Veder, Burst of Joy, Travis Air Force Base, California, March 17, 1973. 






Northern Ireland, The Bogside, Londonderry 1971 Don McCullin






Limassol, Cyprus, 1964. A Turkish Cypriot bursts into action amidst the Cyprus Civil War between Greek and Turkish Cypriots that started the previous year. © Sir Don McCullin

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