Thursday, March 26, 2009

Austria is Eastern Europe

Today I had the pleasure of entering yet another work environment...

a large, ugly, badly ventilated, poorly lit cavern of a building..

in which many poor souls are forced to spend their lives....

and at the entrance I experienced DEJA VU

it was the Vratniks module from Hotel Druzba in Slovakia

the same octagon--well, I guess not, this one was round..

But the idea was the same...

and the haircuts...

the thick glasses..

the overall darkness and dinginess of the place....

reminded me of Slovakia,....

and then I saw it the Socialist REalist Mural celebrating work....

but unlike Communist murals, this was a capitalist mural, in which a clever artist

had accurately depicted the high atop the building security camera,

placed there to protect PROPERTY...

the moral and cultural equivalence of Communism and Capitalism....

It's everywhere to be seen!!!!

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