Baby Dictator

10:42 am EST March 17th, 2010 | Weird | 5 Comments

In retrospect, probably not the best idea to dress up your infant as Hitler, Stalin, and Pinochet among others.

Connie says:

March 17, 2010 at 11:06 am

Your point well taken. In a way it could be a depiction of the infantile psychological makeup that is deep with the ego self of the “evil” person/dictator in question. These people have not shall we say developed past the narcissism of an infant; a metaphor for the emotional impotent human being perhaps? The evil never evolving from outside of the self, ect., ect. ect., all that Psych 101 stuff.

That said… the Stalin baby is too funny.
Felix Helix says:

March 17, 2010 at 12:05 pm

I think it would be a brilliant juxtaposition of evil and innocence that challenges our preconceived notions of those abstract concepts, except for one thing.

It’s a baby. An actual human being. Who is too young to comprehend what’s being done to her, let alone consent to it.

I think the real theme of this exhibition is “How Attention-Seeking Parents Use Their Kids As Tools.”
william says:

March 17, 2010 at 2:02 pm

I prefer the jihadis dressing their children up as suicide bombers. It’s much more of socio-political statement than some bourgeois house wife with a digital camera and a sewing machine looking to make a name for herself.
Joe Crawford says:

March 18, 2010 at 9:18 am

From The Onion, 2001: Anne Geddes Starting To Lose It
j b says:

March 18, 2010 at 4:40 pm

Yeah, but notice that while that Onion-article is nine years old, the baby girl is now eleven years old.