This one is worse. Are we shaming people for giving honest feedback? is that how we foster discussion? Is it not enough that he got negative feedback? Must you grind your heel in his face because his taste in art is not the same as yours?
A well-made axe is art. A beautifully designed house is art. A surgeon replacing your wife’s liver is art. An wide reciever stretching past the line, his fingertips trapping the ball while dragging a foot inbounds for a win in overtime - still art.
It’s all art, my friend. We take a skill and get better. We get so good that people stop and look. I used to be a painter. The blue collar, white ceilings with a roller kind of painter. I was not an artist. My boss, he could cut a freehand line so straight and level you’d think he’d used tape on the wall. Nope, just good at his job. An artist.
But spray paint on a rock wall?! That’s fucking DIFFICULT. Extreme challenge. My boss couldn’t paint that on his very best day. There would be overrun, splatter. The wispy little hair on Yoda’s head would look like Charlie Brown or Homer Simpson.
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Ok, I think they’re all gone now. Just between you and I, this is absolute garbage, 100% agree with you - but probably for different reasons.
Yoda is a soldier. He’s not just a grunt, either. He symbolizes conflict and war. He is the hero of a movie franchise called Star Wars. It’s literally a blockbuster movie about war. Glorifying war. So I feel that the artist made a horrible artistic choice in using Star Wars as a play on Stop Wars.
The concepts bump, making it an uncomfortable moment. Like a child who proudly presents you a picture of a violent scene drawn messily in crayon. You want to match their energy, but you’re lk wondering if the little idiot is just messing with you.
I think this is probably exactly what Trump’s cronies want.
The news is splattered with pics of Trump and Hegseth and the war room. But those aren’t the masterminds. Trump did not get his position twice by doing it all himself.
He’s a figurehead. In his shadow are billionaire donors, some of whom travel to Russia on a regular basis. So, what happens when NATO turns against the US? Why, just like 1984 - a new alliance with an old enemy. Our NATO allies are now the bad guys. The US keeps oil dominance with the Saudis, sells weapons to Russia and continues trading with China. Trump’s cronies money. Everybody is happy, except the puny citizens.
It doesn’t happen overnight, and it doesn’t happen without rigging midterm elections. But it’s the direction the US is pointed in right now.