First, life has no meaning from a cosmic perspective. Our lives may have meaning to one another, but they have no broader point or purpose. We are insignificant specks in a vast universe that is utterly indifferent to us. The limited meaning that our lives can have is ephemeral rather than enduring.

Excerpt From: Benatar, David. “The Human Predicament”

Comet Leonard

Operation Ranch Hand, 1962-1971, Vietnam War

Memory is imagination, and imagination is memory. I don’t think we remember the past, we imagine it. We take a few props with us into the future, and out of those props we make a model, some stage set, and that’s our version of the past. Of course models decay, and they change. And so we’re constantly reshaping the past. Because the past is us. The past is our foundation

It did not scream, it did not run.  It only stood there, staring at the waters of salvation and refusing to enter, as the smell of burning flesh filled the air.

Centro de Estudios Hidrográficos (1960-63) in Madrid, Spain, by Miguel Fisac

But being dependent, every day of the year and for year after year, upon certain politicians for news, the newspaper reporters are obliged to work in harmony with their news sources.

- Edward L. Bernays

Irish Republican Army Warning during The Troubles in the 1990s

Michael Caine e Bob Hoskins, 1985

Jet fighter and the Hohenzollern Castle in West Germany, 1980s

If there is one thing that nobody ever tells you about young love, it’s that your days are numbered from the start.

Soviet cosmonaut Sergei Krikalev was in space when the Soviet Union fell apart in 1991. Unable to return home, he had to stay in space until further notice. The cosmonaut eventually returned back to earth after 10 months in orbit - to a very different nation.