Trad. arr.

Shoot Test Dummy

2010

100 x 124 cm

Man is Great. No. 2

Steve Marriot makes fun of economics in Theme From Skint (See You Later Liquidator) from Humble Pie's 1970 record Humble Pie. As a form of archetype or typical Rock'n'Roll kind of guy Marriot wasn't exactly the kind of cashier one would recommend for... well anything. But with a certain sence of self irony and a recent record company bankruptcy he wrote the satirical song containing the parody above.

But despite economists and presumably economically awareful politicians we (the western world) desperately fights the economical downward spiral at the moment. Seems like someone somehow somewhere overdrew. Maybe we can take a loan and fix the whole thing?

We shall overcome? Nah! That old humanistic mumbo jumbo doesn't sound fun.

Man is Great. No. 1

I totally agree with late President Ronald Reagan! 

Well I know. He didn't intend to put it that way since he actually was about to qoute his early predecessor and United States' second president John Adams who in a famous trial defense (by the time he was an attorney) used the following closing argument: [qoute] "Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passion, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence."

But as I said; Ronald Reagan got it right and I think he could indeed have continued to alter the rest of the sentences as well. Turn them over. What are facts anyway and who's got them?

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