Other Spoof pictures of  the Tourist Guy 

We have represented it here because it is initially a blood chilling image. It is NOT anything to do with the WTC Atrocity though, but for just a moment the viewer is taken into a small chink in time; spoof or not, in the mind of the observer a small fraction of time is frozen for eternity. 

But the image is a hoax, one constructed maybe for a joke, and very amusing it is too, for some. Funny or not, that is up to the onlooker, and how personally they were involved in the 9 / 11 incident will determine how they will react. 

But anyone unconnected who knew it was a hoax might see it as a piece of Art. One fit for the Tate Modern in London, because it says so much, so much about the culture that the author lives in, so much about the society that the image reflects, so much about how far Humankind has gone, but on the other hand how little they know. It tells the viewer that if it is a wicked hoax, what does it say about the society that the author lives in, where he or she can create a spoof image about one of the most horrific incidents in American history, without fear of repudiation. Notwithstanding the spin-off spoof creations subsequently produced for some ongoing amusement.

Let us imagine further, that aliens, in one million years time, are studying it, what could they interpret from what they could see. Moreover, what would they  see at first inspection, and then with some further investigation what would they  see about the truth. Would they wonder why anyone would wish to hoax a picture of an airplane hitting the building where the subject and the photographer are standing?  Would they know about 9 / 11? What would they determine that Earth 2001 was like, and how would they classify Earth's citizens? 

Let us imagine again, that if it were true, and that it was one of those 9-11 airplanes speeding to destruction on that fateful day. And José was just some innocuous tourist guy having his picture taken quite innocently, oblivious of what destruction lied ahead of him, and a Nation, and a World.

At this point in time, all is relatively well for the Human race. He is just another tourist guy, one of the many millions who before him, visited the WTC, and he is probably thinking what a lovely day it is, and how fortunate he is to be a Brazilian, and visiting one of the greatest landmarks in one of the greatest cities on Earth. 

The thriving WTC is going about its business as usual and many thousands of people all around the USA, the UK, Europe and the Middle East are quietly living their lives down one particular time-line.

Living a projected pathway in their lives that if we could see it in the future,  would be a prediction of many people living out their lives to the full, retiring, having grandchildren and going on the proverbial World Cruises before they died of a ripe old age. Or maybe dying of cancer, alternatively,   being hit by a bus on Wednesday 12th September 2001. How many saw this as an opportunity to change their own time-line and escape their lives by pretending that they had been killed.  Or of course it would have been for others, a possible life of Third World poverty in a country lost in the past ravages of past wars, but also of course a picture of many forward years to come; of seeing grandchildren and enjoying their lives to the fullest that they could achieve. Giving love and laughing, thanking God for giving them life no matter what it was.

Many thousands of people around the world looking forward into their future at that point in time, not knowing that in only one second, in only one breath all that what was promised for them in their future life was gone. And not just for those who died during that fateful second in time but for the hundreds killed in the aftermath. Not only the EMS personnel and the victims of the subsequent bombing sorties but also the many thousands personally touched by this event who found themselves killed emotionally inside. 

One action can result in an infinite number of reactions.

Their lives, all their lives changed forever, all possible future occurrences altered, changing the future in a million ways.  Mothers who lost sons and fathers who lost daughters. Spouse losing spouse, changing the future for everyone on the planet. Some at horrendous levels and others at the edge of the ripple, only faintly.

So what does this image say to you? 

Can your imaginations hear a world living, can you imagine this second in time depicted above? Look deeply at the picture and imagine all the lives lost and changed; all the stirred emotions?

Can you imagine all those long past atrocities that changed time-lines for the planet? Pearl Harbor; the Invasion of Poland; the British Empire campaign; the Black Death; the Roman Empire campaign. Many more, right back to the time when that huge block of rock pounded into the planet Earth and changed the time-line for those terrible lizards once and for all.

Whatever you see, will this be the last atrocity to end all atrocities? Will this be the last time-line of such significance to change so much?

As the memory of Tuesday 11th September 2001 fades like a pebble being thrown down the well of time, will this be the date Humankind woke up, or not?

  Doubt it! 

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