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I think of it as The Fool's Journey. I've been asked who the "fool" is. It's me, but in the classical sense of the court jester. Only the fool was allowed to tell the king of his follies. All cartoons are available as prints or originals, framed or unframed, through my website or e-mail. For mugs, t-shirts, and other products visit my gift shop at www.zazzle.com/jcrowtherart* (be sure to include the *).

Friday, March 12, 2010

Tell It Like It Is

"Fashion is that by which the fantastic becomes for a moment universal." Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1891. I can't speak for Oscar, but by fashion I'm not referring to clothes, but rather to any thought that is suddenly on everyone's lips not because it is an enduring truth but rather because the culture has embraced it as a means of avoiding original thought.

posted by John M Crowther @ 7:57 AM 

2 Comments:

Blogger Andrew said...

"...as a means of avoiding original thought."

Exactly.

2:47 PM  
Anonymous Jean Burman said...

Popular culture drives me nuts. How so many of us can use so little imagination with such collective gusto to agree on the commonplace is beyond me. Not cynical at all... (((chuckles)))

3:34 PM  

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