"Reality: What a letdown"

Photography, the Second Commandment, and the allure of Flamin’ Hot Puffs Cheetos

The road out of Babel eventually leads to the Mountain — and some fascinating insights about the power & peril of pictures.

From an IgniteDC presentation that I shared in 2010:

Related: Photography’s wet dream…

(In February 1937, National Geographic magazine published “Changing Berlin,” by Douglas Chandler. It celebrated all the exciting changes in the city thanks to the Nazis. The story “proved to be perhaps the biggest embarrassment in the history of the National Geographic Society.”)