𝖆𝖓𝖝𝖙𝖔𝖓

Но веришь ли ты, что завтра вообще будет?

[anxton]

[ximiraaz1]

[funeral]

In today's state of hyperactivity, where boredom is not allowed to emerge, we never reach the state of deep mental relaxation. The information society is an age of heightened mental tension, because the essence of information is surprise and the stimulus it provides. The tsunami of information means that our perceptual apparatus is permanently stimulated. It can no longer enter into contemplation. The tsunami of information fragments our attention. It prevents the contemplative lingering that is essential to narrating and careful listening . . . In the process of digitalization, . . . information acquires an altogether different status. Reality itself takes on the form of information and data. For the most part, we perceive reality in terms of information or through the lens of information. Information is an idea—that is, a re-representation. When reality takes the form of information, the immediate experience of presence withers. When digitalization gives everything the form of information, reality is flattened.

Byung-Chul Han, The Crisis of Narration

[theworldatwar]

Home Guard units organised motor boat patrols on the canals and waterways to protect local factories and buildings - Edinburgh, Scotland, date unknown

[petaltexturedskies]

A whole world will envelop you, the happiness, the abundance, the inconceivable vastness of a world. Live for a while in these books, learn from them what you feel is worth learning, but most of all love them. This love will be returned to you thousands upon thousands of times, whatever your life may become — it will, I am sure, go through the whole fabric of your being, as one of the most important threads among all the threads of your experiences, disappointments, and joys.

Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet

[trve-grimdark]

The Great War

[captain-price-returns]

Italian sentry at the entrance to a tunnel on Mount Cengio, 1916

[fiery-kitty]

German Rapier (c. 1630–1650)

The Cleveland Museum of Art

Type: Rapier

Overall length: 100.3 cm

Blade length: 86.5 cm

Grip: 12.3 cm

Weight: 840 g

Origin: Germany

Material: steel (blued, gilded, perforated blade)

Technique: bluing, gilding, perforation, chiseling, russeting, damascening

[partisan1943]

Bulgarian soldier guarding a radar station.

[jcsmoothie3]

[cimmerian-war-shrine]

[arabishee]

© KARIM EL MAKTAFI

[arabishee]

© KARIM EL MAKTAFI

[vigilantkilliforniakatholixxx]

[dopa1]

[captain-price-returns]

Member of the U.S. Coast Guard Auxiliary Coastal Picket Force, also known as the Corsair Fleet, patrolling the Atlantic ocean. 1943.

[picturesofthepast]

A single soldier on his horse, during a cavalry patrol in World War I. At the start of the war every major army had a substantial cavalry, and they performed well at first. However, the development of barbed wire, machine guns and trench warfare soon made attacks from horseback far more costly and ineffective on the Western Front. Cavalry units did prove useful throughout the war in other theatres though, including the Eastern Front, and the Middle East.