Our Heads In The Sand

This image is about (to me) motivations, and what a group will do in the name of a way of life. I won’t go into the base image here, as I hope all of you know/have seen: “The Lady of Shalott.” I will go into what I have done to it and why.

I Don’t Like War For MONEY! It is that simple. World War II, was necessary, everything else has been for Money, in some cases well disguised, in most, Blatant. The big problem is that our government and the Money behind it has pulled the wool over the eyes of a large, way too large, portion of the American peoples eyes. They have made most people believe that there is a real moral basis for these wars in the far East, when in reality there is only one reason for being there in the first place: OIL! If it were not for our gluttonous need for gasoline we would not give a damn about the sand over there. But there are real moral reasons for being there some say. BS I say.

The world is full of problems: Aids, Human trafficking, Environmental destruction on a world wide scale, Climate change (it does exist, FACT), ongoing continual prejudice based on every difference between peoples you can imagine. Yet here we are, in a big sandbox spending Lives and money to just continue keeping our heads in the sand instead of facing the real reason for spending those lives and money, and that reason is MONEY. War is money. Money to burn, because we have "roads to drive.”

So, I took and image of human death and destruction and tiled it, then put it behind her head so she could completely ignore what is going on around her and continue to have a pleasant float, and lunch.

So we do what the lady in the images does, we put blinders on, and go about our daily lives of not seeing the truth of things. Or maybe it’s just because we don’t want to get rid of our nice comfortable Escalade . . . . . .

Jim

James Longster, © 2014

Our Heads In The Sand