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THE MAXEY CHRONICLES' 2015 PERSON of THE YEAR- AYLAN KURTI, Age 3

20 th Century Beat Generation Poet Allen Ginsberg once conjured up a dangerously Orwellian aphorism, sublimely applicable to the 21 st Century up to this date: " Whoever controls the media, the images, controls the culture ." TIME Magazine named German Chancellor Angela Merkel as its 2015  PERSON OF THE YEAR for her humanitarian response to the refugee crisis; she single handedly allowed over ONE MILLION, none vetted, refugees into Germany. However, Chancellor Merkel’s response, which will change German culture forever, was a response…..to an image, nothing more, nothing less. The image was the corpse of a three year old Syrian refugee, Aylan Kurti, washed up on a Turkish beach(see below), drowned trying to get to Europe. Therefore this Blogger has named Aylan Kurti, the drowned boy whose heart wrenching end birthed that momentous image, THE MAXEY CHRONICLES’2015 PERSON OF THE YEAR. Aylan Kurti’s death, and the image of his death, has changed, perhaps irrevoca...