Photography 647

  Identity / Authorship art Scholz by 江戸門戸 by 江戸門戸 Scholz©2025 Edmund Scholz ©2025 江戸門戸 LegacySubject personal photographers reflective self portrait Scholz Time / Date / Era 20y06m 25y 25y09m 25y09m14d birthday Covid-19 Day Count 139 Covid-19 Day Count 146 Dominion Day Halloween JANUARY pandemic Era Reiwa 7 (令和7年) Saturday September SPRING WINTER Xmas Photography Styles / Techniques Black-and-white photography crop SQUARE candid photography DECISIVE MOMENT DISTORTION GLARE GOLDEN HOUR Guerilla photography GUILLOTINE photography Holga-ish Kamishibai photography LENS FLARE Lomo-ish edit night photography Pixelate portrait Portraits edit focal zoom reflections Sepia shadow shadows silhouette silhouette photography sketch picasa street photography Camera / Technical CAMERA ROLL Canon EF 70-300mm f/4-5.6 IS II USM FIND 2221 full sized INSTAGRAM EXPORT Cane Project / Disability cane cane project CANE ALONE canegirls collection Fibromyalgia lawful lawful good model project - cane - apoca...

--- **The Death of Cash and the Illusion of Freedom** “Is this real? Can this be real?” The refrain echoes after watching that viral clip of a man in Britain attempting to pay for groceries with cash, only to be rebuffed. The video plays like satire, a dystopian sketch about state overreach and creeping corporate control, yet it is merely reportage. We scoff, and yet the absurdity masks a truth already embedded in our lives: cash—the bedrock of anonymity and autonomy—is being legislated, ridiculed, and algorithmically erased in plain sight. In Canada, my own recent encounter at Fan Expo Toronto brought this home with theatrical flair. After a day of navigating aisles of overpriced collectibles and expensive caffeine, I attempted to pay for lunch in cash. The response was cold and swift: “We don’t take cash.” No negotiation, no pretense, no apology. One vendor even laughed. A decade ago, this would have been unthinkable—cash was both king and constitutional expectation. Now, cash makes ...

My friend is a digital moron. He insists I get a cell phone and comply with the endless demands of this surveillance society. He’s exactly the kind of person who would have gleefully marched into a Nazi concentration camp without question — eager to follow orders, blind to the consequences. He doesn’t see how blindly accepting technology like this enables authoritarian control. He doesn’t realize that by forcing everyone to be online, surveilled, and tracked, society is normalizing obedience and weakening freedom. Accidental Nazis and the Digital Divide: How Cell Phones Shape Power, Authoritarianism, and Social Exclusion In the modern world, cell phones have become ubiquitous tools for communication, entertainment, and access to information. Society increasingly treats digital connectivity as an essential social necessity. Yet beneath this convenience lies a troubling paradox: while many cell phone users unknowingly enable authoritarian surveillance and control, those without acc...