Montegriffo wrote: ↑Thu Dec 06, 2018 6:17 pm
Yeah 'cos an anti-consumerism message on an empty advertising board is just sooo globalist man.
Why don't you just admit you don't like him because he's a lefty.
lol you could fill the grand canyon with stacks of Ben Franklins that corporations have made from peddling anti-consumer messages. Do you know how many people I see walking around with Fight Club and Che T-shirts?Mao zedong's face is on condoms and purses.
I don't think Banksy is subversive. There was a time he would have been, but nowadays, the right is far more subversive than the left. There isn't an inherent value in being subversive for its own sake, it boils down to what you believe to be right imo.
I don't know if you watched the film Exit through the Gift Shop, but to me it sort of took the wind out of Bansky's sails. It kind of revealed him (and a lot of modern art) for what he is. I actually liked the film, but I came out disliking Banksy more.
Subversives have a shelf life too. DeGaulle said of Sartre: "How can I arrest Voltaire?" When that happens, you know that intellectual is no longer a threat to the power structure, because he's a part of it (especially since Sartre was a pitiful disgusting apologist for Stalinism and Maoism whose originators ruled with amoral power over every aspect of their society). Even Voltaire spent huge portions of his life being co-opted by Catherine and Frederick. History remembers them differently than they actually were.