I woke -up this morning with two realisations. One was an aura in my eyes I occasionally get that last some twenty-five minutes disabling my eyesight. The other realisation was that John F. Kennedy was executed. Many have said or used the words assassination but this was a deliberately public, deliberately recorded killing. Execution is always a State tool.Whether the planners knew of the Zapruder movie film is open to discussion. But they did know that there would be photographs. Many photographs and many witnesses. In the Square for the hanging.How can I say it was announced? John F Kennedy was a popular man who did not ‘play the game.’ All popular politicians use words to fuel their popularity. Once in a position of Power, however, they play the game. Keep Power where it has always been. And usually any ‘unsafe’ persons will just find themselves dead. The story in place.But the good looking do-gooder had to be violently killed in front of his adoring public. Not untraceable poison but physical violence. Diana got the same. And both buried away from acceptance.Photographs both still and moving are key to execution. Paintings in the moment. ‘To democratize all experiences by translating them into images’ states Susan Sontag in this book published 1977. We all have the same picture of a good man downed.My recent photographic expedition back to the beginnings of civilization impressed the socks off me. Cycling up to Stonehenge I captured the reality 2023. Light weight, digital, long and wide lens, discreet. It even included moving pictures. I publish to the world ‘Every Stone is Government’ and provide a narrative to explain the inexplicable. A Cathedral built nowhere and a set of immense stones clearly not nature’s force.Stonehenge and other henges provide an image. The Pyramids in Egypt provide an image. Even before cameras the image remains ingrained. They don’t play the game. No names, no attribution, a stamp upon the Planet. Designed to make the human animal look up. To accept that the human is not capable of this. They are stepping stones, if I may be metaphorical.Freedom. Sontag: ‘Social change is replaced by a change of images.’ And ‘freedom to consume a plurality of images and goods is equated with freedom itself.’ The ruling ideology is served. Nothing changes. The selfie seems to rule. Yet we, the people, remain detached and enveloped in our own constructions. Fortified by images. Never are ‘we’ in control of ‘our’ destinies. The overwhelming mass of average are actually all of us. Conscious of the stars. Special.