Ryan lobo ©<!-- /* Font Definitions */ @font-face {font-family:Times; panose-1:2 0 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0; mso-font-charset:0; mso-generic-font-family:auto; mso-font-pitch:variable; mso-font-signature:3 0 0 0 1 0;} @font-face {font-family:"ＭＳ 明朝"; mso-font-charset:78; mso-generic-font-family:auto; mso-font-pitch:variable; mso-font-signature:-536870145 1791491579 18 0 131231 0;} @font-face {font-family:"Cambria Math"; panose-1:2 4 5 3 5 4 6 3 2 4; mso-font-charset:0; mso-generic-font-family:auto; mso-font-pitch:variable; mso-font-signature:-536870145 1107305727 0 0 415 0;} @font-face {font-family:Cambria; panose-1:2 4 5 3 5 4 6 3 2 4; mso-font-charset:0; mso-generic-font-family:auto; mso-font-pitch:variable; mso-font-signature:-536870145 1073743103 0 0 415 0;} @font-face {font-family:Baskerville; panose-1:2 2 5 2 7 4 1 2 3 3; mso-font-charset:0; mso-generic-font-family:auto; mso-font-pitch:variable; mso-font-signature:-2147483545 0 0 0 415 0;} /* Style Definitions */ p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal {mso-style-unhide:no; mso-style-qformat:yes; mso-style-parent:""; margin:0cm; margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:12.0pt; font-family:Cambria; mso-ascii-font-family:Cambria; mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family:"ＭＳ 明朝"; mso-fareast-theme-font:minor-fareast; mso-hansi-font-family:Cambria; mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-bidi;} p {mso-style-noshow:yes; mso-style-priority:99; mso-margin-top-alt:auto; margin-right:0cm; mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto; margin-left:0cm; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:10.0pt; font-family:Times; mso-fareast-font-family:"ＭＳ 明朝"; mso-fareast-theme-font:minor-fareast; mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman";} .MsoChpDefault {mso-style-type:export-only; mso-default-props:yes; font-family:Cambria; mso-ascii-font-family:Cambria; mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family:"ＭＳ 明朝"; mso-fareast-theme-font:minor-fareast; mso-hansi-font-family:Cambria; mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-bidi;} @page WordSection1 {size:612.0pt 792.0pt; margin:72.0pt 90.0pt 72.0pt 90.0pt; mso-header-margin:36.0pt; mso-footer-margin:36.0pt; mso-paper-source:0;} div.WordSection1 {page:WordSection1;} </style></div><br /><br /><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "baskerville"; font-size: x-small;">An examination of power and its passage through space and time, with monuments, museums and quotes.</span></span><br /><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "baskerville"; font-size: xx-small;">All photographs made in Lucknow at the </span></span></span><span style="font-family: "baskerville"; font-size: 10.0pt;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span class="st" style="font-size: x-small;">Dr. B.R. Ambedkar Samajik Parivartan Sthal, Lucknow museum and a warehouse for removed statues.</span></span> </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-Rco8iLN28r0..." imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-Rco8iLN28r..." /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">As the cliché goes, power corrupts. But what is seldom realized is that power also reveals. When a person is in the act of attainment, subterfuge is necessary. But as he or she achieves power, the need for concealment diminishes and in time, monuments are built to honor the powerful, the wise and the heroic and so it goes on and the older monuments are replaced by what lives on and that has risen from the ashes of the past.</span></span></div><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">All empires perish but not for a lack of power but the very opposite.  They lose discipline and and are one day replaced by those who have known less, want more and who have yet to consider a need to rise above their own desires and selves.</span></span><br /><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The rise and fall of empires have been going on since the first ape-man usurped his brother’s position. Savagery, Ascendance, Decadence.The great rise because of Savagery and a need to triumph. They rule in Ascendance. They fall because of their Decadence.  A cascading, process though space time, the eternal Ourobouros eating its own tail, its darker aspects alive within the heart of man, whose existence we often reject and allow to manifest in so many ways.</span></span><br /><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">We want to believe in universal peace and justice and our own individual ideas of the world. The truth is that our existences are circles of shadow and light, greed and transcendence, peace and war. It will always be no matter the utopias we imagine, history being more gigantic, relentless, terrifying and humbling than what we think we know of ourselves.</span></span><br /><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Occasionally, a sage.</span></span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">And that too shall pass.</span></span><br /><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">"How is the empire?"</span></span></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">An unusual phrase in that form,</span></span></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">And the secretary said </span></span></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">"All is well, sir, with the empire,"</span></span></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">And the king gave him a smile and relapsed once more into unconsciousness.</span></span></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">- The last words of King George V</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; 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