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Tomorrow’s UK front pages. Medieval.

Children will see this at the supermarket and convenience store tomorrow.

I’m surprised we’re not passing around his head on a spike.

This is precisely the reason I’ve refrained from posting photos of him. Our culture has an insatiable bloodlust. If I’m not mistaken, my good friend akagoldfish wrote a lot about this culture of violence and its implications following the assassination of Bin Laden.

Thanks Matt for this sentiment about the repetitive use of violent images in the media without regard. Thanks so much. I’m cognizant of the fact that violence is a reality of life and people should realize that such things exist, but when it’s overused to this extent just for people’s fleeting interest, it’s just depraved. I’ve gotten into so many arguments about this…

“…the body of the condemned man was once again an essential element in the ceremonial of public punishment. It was the task of the guilty man to bear openly his condemnation and the truth of the crime that he had committed. His body, displayed, exhibited in procession, tortured, served as the public support of a procedure that had hitherto remained in the shade; in him, on him, the sentence had to be legible for all.”

Michel Foucault, Discipline & Punish: Birth of the Prison, p. 43

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   99anon: Seriously. Every time I turn around I’m seeing these pictures. BUT LET’S COVER UP THE GAY COUPLE!

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    And yet again the sun proves just why I would never purchase it for myself.

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    great day for my family…but more importantly, for humanity.

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