In order to understand the tone of this site, it’s important to understand exactly what a ‘non person’ is.
According to Wikipedia it is defined as:
… a person or a member of a group who lacks, loses, or is forcibly denied social or legal status, especially basic human rights, or who effectively ceases to have a record of their existence within a society (damnatio memoriae), from a point of view of traceability, documentation, or existence. The term also refers to people whose death is unverifiable and about which inquiries result in a “blank wall” of “nobody knows”.
Which of course, in all it’s encyclopedic coldness does not do justice to the inherent evil that this term was used in conjunction with. People in Nazi death camps were nonpersons. People during the Russian purges were nonpersons. Officially these people were not just said to not exist, in many cases they were also purged from documents and records, even photographs. For example:
In this picture Stalin is out for a fun jaunt with his trusted officers, but once he finds out that the other one is a traitor… the image magically changes.
It wasn’t just this man that was purged, millions were. I only show these images to provide a sort of context. Either way in regaurds to this site, if we were alive durring those times that could easily be us disappearing out of those pictures. The idea here is that to be unpretentious and yet unconventional. That’s all it’s about.
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