It’s the big match tonight and yet again, it’s not the idiot being an idiot that intrigues; it’s the idiots filming the idiot.
(And when I take to Google to determine whether Baudrillard or McLuhan or Berger might best explain the conundrum, I discover that the latter provided the voices for twin villains in an iteration of the Grand Theft Auto game. And call me an effete elitist, but I find that more intriguing than the fireworks or even the football.)
PS: When I posted the above picture on Facebook, the Zuckergods deemed it indecent. But in The Guardian, the brilliant David Squires makes it cleaner, and at the same time more brutal.
ReplyDeleteit seems to have become a Johnson trope in The Guardian: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/picture/2021/jul/13/ben-jennings-on-the-charge-that-priti-patel-stoked-the-fire-of-racism-cartoon