I figured you were posting that as some sort of a bait or troll tactic. I'll try not to feed the trolls.Seraph wrote:Joy!Coito ergo sum wrote:What message do you think that picture conveys?Seraph wrote:Joy
What do you think it's saying?
Can't you read a message as short as a single word consisting of just three letters, let alone work out what to make of it?
It is. Duh.RuleBritannia wrote:Well the girl in the middle is Phan Thị Kim Phúc, she's from a famous picture taken during the Vietnam War just after a napalm attack:
I fail to see what the connection is with Mickey Mouse and Ronald McDonald? Looks like propaganda to me.
Feck wrote:They should just make the doors to all fast food places really narrow ....
That wouldn't stop them 
It's a piece of art by Banksy, a well known anti-capitalist and pacifist, there's only one message and the message is obvious.Seraph wrote:It is. Duh.
The picture I linked to shows how big corporations lead children to happiness and joy - even the most miserable ones, like the one depicted, who is in extreme physical pain, having had her clothes burnt off her body by napalm, and who is totally traumatised . The smoke in the background obscures the total destruction of her entire life; her village, her home and possibly some or many of her family, friends and community.
It's an extremely hyperbolised illustration of what corporations like Disney and MacDonald say they are doing. Make of it what you want.
Ian wrote:Eleven pages on Ronald McDonald???
I have only one thing to say to this entire thread:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ
O dear! Who would have thunk it?RuleBritannia wrote:It's a piece of art by Banksy, a well known anti-capitalist and pacifist, there's only one message and the message is obvious.Seraph wrote:It is. Duh.
The picture I linked to shows how big corporations lead children to happiness and joy - even the most miserable ones, like the one depicted, who is in extreme physical pain, having had her clothes burnt off her body by napalm, and who is totally traumatised . The smoke in the background obscures the total destruction of her entire life; her village, her home and possibly some or many of her family, friends and community.
It's an extremely hyperbolised illustration of what corporations like Disney and MacDonald say they are doing. Make of it what you want.
FIO wrote:Ian wrote:Eleven pages on Ronald McDonald???
I have only one thing to say to this entire thread:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ
This video contains content from Vevo, who has blocked it in your country on copyright grounds.
I'd love to be a pacifist, I'd give peace a chance, but unfortunately while Taliban are running around chopping peoples heads off, I have no choice but to be their enemy.Seraph wrote:O dear! Who would have thunk it?RuleBritannia wrote:It's a piece of art by Banksy, a well known anti-capitalist and pacifist, there's only one message and the message is obvious.Seraph wrote:It is. Duh.
The picture I linked to shows how big corporations lead children to happiness and joy - even the most miserable ones, like the one depicted, who is in extreme physical pain, having had her clothes burnt off her body by napalm, and who is totally traumatised . The smoke in the background obscures the total destruction of her entire life; her village, her home and possibly some or many of her family, friends and community.
It's an extremely hyperbolised illustration of what corporations like Disney and MacDonald say they are doing. Make of it what you want.
...AND a pacifist you say? I am shocked. The sheer gall...
RuleBritannia wrote:I'd love to be a pacifist, I'd give peace a chance, but unfortunately while Taliban are running around chopping peoples heads off, I have no choice but to be their enemy.Seraph wrote:O dear! Who would have thunk it?RuleBritannia wrote:It's a piece of art by Banksy, a well known anti-capitalist and pacifist, there's only one message and the message is obvious.Seraph wrote:It is. Duh.
The picture I linked to shows how big corporations lead children to happiness and joy - even the most miserable ones, like the one depicted, who is in extreme physical pain, having had her clothes burnt off her body by napalm, and who is totally traumatised . The smoke in the background obscures the total destruction of her entire life; her village, her home and possibly some or many of her family, friends and community.
It's an extremely hyperbolised illustration of what corporations like Disney and MacDonald say they are doing. Make of it what you want.
...AND a pacifist you say? I am shocked. The sheer gall...
What I was alluding to is my bewilderment about bringing up Banksy's pacifism in relation to a discussion of MacDonald's clown device. Sure, everything is connected with everything, but can't we make some (albeit arbitrary) decision to limit discussions to just a segment of the universal spectrum? Perhaps you and CES would like to start a thread on pacifism, yes?RuleBritannia wrote:I'd love to be a pacifist, I'd give peace a chance, but unfortunately while Taliban are running around chopping peoples heads off, I have no choice but to be their enemy.
I brought up pacifism because the image of little girl is from the Vietnam War and Banksy is a known pacifist, I didn't bring the image of war up, you did. The piece of art is obviously connecting war with capitalism, it has nothing to do with obesity, which is what this thread is about.Seraph wrote:What I was alluding to is my bewilderment about bringing up Banksy's pacifism in relation to a discussion of MacDonald's clown device. Sure, everything is connected with everything, but can't we make some (albeit arbitrary) decision to limit discussions to just a segment of the universal spectrum? Perhaps you and CES would like to start a thread on pacifism, yes?RuleBritannia wrote:I'd love to be a pacifist, I'd give peace a chance, but unfortunately while Taliban are running around chopping peoples heads off, I have no choice but to be their enemy.
All RuledBrit did is explain who drew the picture and what his background/politics were. You're the one who made pacifism, specifically, an issue when you sarcastically replied "...AND a pacifist you say? I am shocked. The sheer gall." The Orwell quote explains why an artist's status as a "pacifist" might be relevant to an interpretation of his work.Seraph wrote:What I was alluding to is my bewilderment about bringing up Banksy's pacifism in relation to a discussion of MacDonald's clown device. Sure, everything is connected with everything, but can't we make some (albeit arbitrary) decision to limit discussions to just a segment of the universal spectrum? Perhaps you and CES would like to start a thread on pacifism, yes?RuleBritannia wrote:I'd love to be a pacifist, I'd give peace a chance, but unfortunately while Taliban are running around chopping peoples heads off, I have no choice but to be their enemy.
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