1 month ago18 points(+0/-0/+18Score on mirror)2 children
"Translation: He's not leading anyone."
"He" who, exactly? The message is so ambiguous, it could mean anyone you want, which is exactly what "Banksy" or whatever committee that created it wants. The subtext, the intended meaning, is that this is the folly of White Britons who want any shred of a national identity. If you want the government to represent you and your interests, you're stupid and ignorant.
But, at the exact same time, it could represent the folly of the current government who has been blinded by Liberal Pluralism, which is why it's the Union Jack rather than St George's Cross.
Typically Lefty nonsense; a completely ambiguous wall of text that can be interpreted to make them "right" no matter what.
Banksy serves the government and institutions of the globalist world hegemony, not the people. He exists to provide a false definition of rebellion. His artwork is neither dangerous nor new. His messages are the same overdone liberal platitudes that we have suffered since the 2000s. By propping up a mainstream and safe artist as the anonymous face of rebellion, the fringes of the counter-culture are less likely to threaten those who are actually in control.
If Banksy were the person he thinks he is, if he were truly dedicated to speaking truth to power, he would take risks and criticize those who are in actual power. He never will, because he is a larper.
"Don't you see chud? Don't you see how we totally owned you? Don't you see how we owned you chud? You're stepping off a cliff into nothing! We drew you that way so you can see it. You're just stupid and don't get how good of a pwn that was and that's why you don't appreciate us. You're blind to all our whining about human rights and only care about your stupid flag. My worldview prevents me from conceptualizing any reality that your symbol represents therefore the only meaning of the symbol is literally the cloth its made of, and everything you care about doesn't exist except for how it confirms my priors about how stupid you are for paying attention to things that aren't me. It is epistemologically impossible for me, as an abstract concept, to possess the capacity for evil within my own worldview, therefore I cannot possibly be a batshit insane genocidal maniac and everything I want destroyed crushed burned smashed and gone in this world is not people's lives and families but a symbol with no meaning attached to it because if it had meaning I would be a horrible person. I can't see it chud, therefore you're just following it blindly. We on the other hand are enlightened and follow true universal rights and can know the divine mystery of meaning itself. We own the unknowable. You don't own it. Your fake god is just lying to you and you don't know how to traverse the void of consciousness because you're a dumb redneck. Why can't you see how good we pwned you chud? This is all so abstract and mysterious; someone had better recognize me for it."
The time of fence-sitting pussy-footing is over.