Showing posts with label Joe Becker. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Joe Becker. Show all posts

Saturday, August 6, 2011

The Painter as Barbarian: An Appreciation of Joe Becker

Dreams are liars; if you shit in your bed, that's true.
-Martin Luther

We live in a therapeutic society because there is no culture here, only a market. A culture is predicated on sacrifice and capitalism, as Adam Smith and everyone after him has known, is incapable of sacrifice. Instead, it has a kind of pious sado-masochism where nothing ever really happens and the social contract amounts to a fanatical aversion to facing reality. The common sense of this world is a make believe pasture where everyone's masturbatory whims are turned into sacred cows.