Friday, September 05, 2008

Cultures Committed to Unifying Greeds

Susan Sontag:

“We live in a culture committed to unifying greeds…..everyone on the planet feeding at the same trough of standardized entertainment and fantasies of eros and violence…"


Artist: Drew Dernavich The New Yorker September 8, 2008 Cartoon Caption Contest 159

Proposed Caption:

“Like Graham Greene’s ‘Dr Fischer of Geneva or The Bomb Party’, I now invite you to get inside the cup and drink the beverage to get to the grand prize at the bottom. Remember, one of them is perhaps laced with cyanide.

Go. Prove to the world limitless greed of the rich.”