The soup-tossers are going for shock value. No one would notice if they tossed soup on, e.g. duct-taped bananas. Everyone would assume it's part of the exhibit.
The funniest thing about the soup-tossers, digressing here, is the way their actions are so blatantly revealing. They're trying to play a game of épater les bourgeois. They're supposedly doing this *from the Left*. But their choice of targets invariably reveals an eager embrace of the same wretched values they notionally oppose. When, for example, they block rush hour traffic, they've successfully harmed working class people, and no one else.
The soup-tossers are going for shock value. No one would notice if they tossed soup on, e.g. duct-taped bananas. Everyone would assume it's part of the exhibit.
This sounds like an idea to try. We still have that banana somewhere. :)
The funniest thing about the soup-tossers, digressing here, is the way their actions are so blatantly revealing. They're trying to play a game of épater les bourgeois. They're supposedly doing this *from the Left*. But their choice of targets invariably reveals an eager embrace of the same wretched values they notionally oppose. When, for example, they block rush hour traffic, they've successfully harmed working class people, and no one else.
"épater les bourgeois"?
Thanks, you just showed my analphabetic brain a new $25 phrase!
Hmmm, Mr. Rat. What a capital idea, maybe I could exhibit my 118 year old house as 'art' and suggest they throw paint?
Brilliant. I think my neighbours heard me laugh.
Ok. Rat gave me a chuckle today.
And create a Warhol rip in the matrix? Heavens NO!
These days, many people would rip the matrix wide open for their fifteen minutes of fame.
Kind of like burning their city to the ground in order to rule over the ashes.