It is. Really!
To demonstrate (from the Latin prefix de- meaning completely, plus the verb monstrare, to show,) is 'to monster completely'. Animals imitate other animals, this is the work of Nature: mimesis and the act of copying what you see. Children do it all the time as do adults but it is perhaps more noticeable in the child. At any rate, the only image is Nature and what she presents you with. Any other image is a bastardization of the soul and of essence, a violation of the spirit. It is why indiegnous tribes tell you that the photo captures part of their soul, because in re-presenting a living conviviality you necessarily decontextualize it and thus kill it. This re-presentation furthermore is pure surface, pure spectacle. And the spectacle, as anyone who has read any Debord should know, is deadly.
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