testmeat photoblog

the cemetery in buenos aires is a strange thing. for a start it's huge and is slap bang in the middle of the city. it's also weird how much attention, detail and money has been spent on some of these tombs or mausoleums. many of them are hugely complicated structures that look like little churches in their own right, or grandiose statues. i was impressed at first, but couldn't shake the feeling that the money spent was wasteful to the point of being distasteful. for all intents and purposes it seemed that the people who were buried there (or the people that buried them) were involved in a game of one-upmanship to try and better the last person that died, to make their final resting place look as fancy as possible. but really, what's the point? because whether you believe in heaven, or reincarnation, or just that dying is the end, it doesn't really count for shit where your skeleton is decaying. plus all the pesos that have been spent on something that, as an ideal, is ugly, doesn't seem right. but then again, aesthetically a lot the monuments and statues are the opposite of ugly, and there's certainly a social/cultural interest there. hmm, this is uncharacteristically serious for me, what i meant to say was: ooh look - a lens flare.

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