Work 454; The Trouble with the Whole World

 The Trouble with the Whole World
  c. Michael St.Mark, April 2011

Television screenshot of an injured and captured mercenary  from the Libyan town of Misrata. Part of a rebel army unit that had been shelling civilian areas and sniping from rooftops at anything that moved. Here pictured wounded ( & shot in the foot to prevent escape ) with a wad of Gaddafi blood money ironically now soaked with his own blood; he admits to piece work – paid per person he killed ( said he had a wife and kids to feed, what else could he do ).

The Work relating to the increasingly common mentality of ” I don’t care about anyone else just so long as I’m doing ok ”  and how it is inexorably destroying the social fabric of the entire world – this being a particularly archetypal example – along with the arms dealer, drug dealer, the abattoir worker, the rogue banker & multicorp’ executive, the etc etc etc…
M St.M

 

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