Johnny Waters’ Latest Silly Opinion Piece
Posted on March 28, 2009 - Filed Under Ireland, News Item | 2 Comments
Waters is notorious to churning out shite in his Irish Times colume, but his latest burst of spleen is really quite something. From the IT:
OPINION: CONOR CASBY, the artist claiming responsibility for the notorious nude paintings of the Taoiseach hung for a “joke” in the National Gallery and RHA, has said that he wants to let the paintings “speak for themselves”, writes JOHN WATERS
He did not intimate what he thinks they might be saying. That the artist has an infantile obsession with toilet humour? That he nurtures some deep animus towards politicians?
That he cannot draw?
The only amusing thing here is Casby’s deluded belief that he has something to say. His response is typical of a public discourse almost fatally degraded by internet auto-eroticism and an obsession with what is called “comedy”. His works are crude, unfunny, vindictive, without intrinsic content and wholly lacking in artistic merit.
Waters goes on to write that politics is very serious business and should not be subject to jokes, and claims that the internet is to blame for “[reducing] public debate to the level of a drunken argument”.
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Wasn’t he the one who claimed that 80% of the internet is porn?
[If only…]
I think the figure Waters cited was closer to 90%. For some reason he also seems to think that the internet is chock full of satanic content; maybe he spends all day googling it.