Dismaland: the most depressing place on earth.
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Dismaland - Bemusement park.
It's just a massive '🤬 take' of Disney parks and modern culture itself.
I love Banksys' take on the world, very much like mine.
When you stand back and take a look at this world that the Elites have created, it makes you wonder how the whole world hasn't revolted and overthrown them all and hopefully that'll happen in my lifetime.
🤬 the 1%
It's just a massive '🤬 take' of Disney parks and modern culture itself.
I love Banksys' take on the world, very much like mine.
When you stand back and take a look at this world that the Elites have created, it makes you wonder how the whole world hasn't revolted and overthrown them all and hopefully that'll happen in my lifetime.
🤬 the 1%
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Interesting concept. Very well executed. Doesn't interest me in the slightest.
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If you're going to censor a word, censor the word, not bits of it.
As for Banksy's social and political commentary, he does rather seem to have picked up copies of My First Left-Winger and One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, SMASH THE SYSTEM.
The concept that someone so against the 1% and wealth could fund construction of something of this scale all by himself suggests he's not that against wealth...
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God...that boat. This fits in Fallout 4.
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Dismaland - Bemusement park.
It's just a massive '🤬 take' of Disney parks and modern culture itself.
I love Banksys' take on the world, very much like mine.
When you stand back and take a look at this world that the Elites have created, it makes you wonder how the whole world hasn't revolted and overthrown them all and hopefully that'll happen in my lifetime.
🤬 the 1%
Sounds like you should channel your rage against the world in to something creative.
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I imagine it is more a commentary on the blind consumerist culture that has developed and the fantasy world that social media creates.
@numbnuts70 - your name seems a bit poetic given the nature of your rage post.
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It isn't, or rather your attempt at humor is drowned out by your blind lashing out at those that have more than you. I kind of burnt out on the Occupy and 1% mentalities a few years ago, more so when it became apparent that 99% of the people involved had almost no idea how anything actually works.
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Condescending much?
Well, I pity you for being taken in by the 'occupy' movement, then thinking that you obviously 'have been there and done that' and know a lot more than someone whom you haven't any idea about.
I would say 'think for yourself more and maybe you'll try not to desperately be 'in' the next youth idea' but I wouldn't waste my breath.
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You misunderstand - I was never involved with Occupy, just an observer. So, you know, the rest of your quotes and stuff don't really apply but thanks for the thought?
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Oh man, it looks to me like a creepypasta that has come to life. With that said, meh; I don't really care for it to be honest.
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... in Weston-super-Mare...
Just to hunt for an appropriate US-location metaphor... having this locating in Weston-super-Mare is quite like having it located in Perfection, Nevada (the town in Tremors), if it happened to be located in Maine and separated from the Atlantic Ocean by mudflats.
A real consumerist hotbed.
So. To nail two posts together for the juxtaposition:
I find this sort of attitude from the 99%/Occupy brigade terribly amusing. That sign almost literally says "I'm angry because I know more than you.".
It's a thread we see a lot. The government is pulling the wool over our eyes, we're being lied to by mainstream media, WAKE UP SHEEPLE! It's because we're not clever enough to see through the tricks that the clever 99%/Occupy people can see through.
I do wonder, had the ever-so-clever individual pictured above paid attention in school, would they be so outraged?
Banksy fuels this attitude. Of the pictures we see coming up from Dismaland, there's the paparazzi photographing the dead Cinderella in her upturned carriage - just in case the point about Princess Diana wasn't rammed home hard enough. The message? Well, is it that mainstream media values someone's death so much they'll pay heavily for pictures of it - or is it that consumers value it so much that the mainstream media values it too?
If it's the former, it's just more tinfoil hattery. If it's the latter, he's deriding Daily Mail readers. Since that's never been done before.
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I was interested in the Dismaland thing before I knew it was a thing. I saw the photo of Cindarella before anything else, which was quite amusing, then realised it was part of an ironic theme park, which was less so. Then I discovered it was Banksy, who has ceased to be quite as interesting as he was when he was stencilling the side of grotty buildings in UK cities.
Somehow his sociological statements meant more when they were just something you'd happen upon one day, go "heh" and then forget about as you got on with your daily life. Now they're big physical structures with wide media coverage and entry prices, it's not really a statement so much as a business.
Somehow his sociological statements meant more when they were just something you'd happen upon one day, go "heh" and then forget about as you got on with your daily life. Now they're big physical structures with wide media coverage and entry prices, it's not really a statement so much as a business.
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That's the point, they're hired/trained that way.
Overall I don't have a problem with Banksy organising exhibitions for himself and other artists. His comments are normally punchy, relevant and visually witty (in my opinion). He gives art away for other people to monetise, sometimes the life of his works is a comment in itself.
I'd love to have gone to see this exhibition, actually. Weston-Super-Mare is a great place to have it, stuffed with seaside irony as it is.
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DJ Dapper Dan has pulled out of the planned Dismaland gig and a "supply DJ from Brighton" is to take his place.
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I had a dream last night about being in Dismaland, where I was subsequently chased and beaten up by drunken, violent neds. In unrelated news, I returned to Glasgow yesterday after a 2.5 month hiatus in California.
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