The Pen is Mightier than the...Well, On Second Thought...

Here's a piece I found on the Times (UK) website. It's a story about artists in Europe not standing up for themselves because they're afraid of getting their throats cut.

Perry: Radical Chicken
Gotta love the "artists." Whether they work in paint, film, or literature, the vast majority of these thought provoking individuals are a bunch of chickens.

Here's what Grayson Perry had to say, as quoted by the Times. He's a cross-dressing pottery nut, and his pots can fetch over a hundred thousand dollars at auction:

“I’ve censored myself,” Perry said at a discussion on art and politics organized by the Art Fund. “The reason I haven’t gone all out attacking Islamism in my art is because I feel real fear that someone will slit my throat.”

Perry’s highly decorated pots can sell for more than £50,000 and often feature sex, violence and childhood motifs. One work depicted a teddy bear being born from a penis as the Virgin Mary. “I’m interested in religion and I’ve made a lot of pieces about it,” he said. “With other targets you’ve got a better idea of who they are but Islamism is very amorphous. You don’t know what the threshold is. Even what seems an innocuous image might trigger off a really violent reaction so I just play safe all the time.”

Ah. Playing it safe. That's what we're to expect from the radical art crowd now, is it? Thanks, but I already knew that. 10 000 separate terrorist attacks around the world since 9/11, stacks of dead bodies everywhere, a Canadian mosque that says it's not right to kill "believers" but says nothing about us lowly infidels...and all you guys can come up with is movies bashing the West in general and George Bush in particular.

I can't wait until Dubya is out of office, not because I don't think he's been a good president, but because it will be wonderful to watch the slimy artistic worms try to find something new to deflect attention away from their cowardice.

Theo van Gogh makes a film about the brutal treatment of women at the hands of Islamic fundamentalists. He gets shot and stabbed for the trouble. How does the "artistic community" condemn this attack? By portraying the Virgin Mary with a dick and hiding behind such crap as Islam being "very amorphous."

Sure, Grayson. Tell yourself that it's "amorphous," and that you "don't know where the line is." I'll tell you where it is: just across the yellow line that runs down the center of your back.

Photo: Sydney Morning Herald