In my nearest city, a few years ago, the local woke arts festival (quite literally a celebration of debauchery and death, but anyway) managed to get municipal funding to put up giant glowing red upside-down crosses…
When local Christian groups complained, they were told to shut up, and that it “brings in the right kind of tourists”…
They would never be even allowed to put up their own crosses off that size, in the right size and colour, let alone getting funding to do so…
But because it’s sex-and-death fest (which started again yesterday), it’s all fine and dandy…
Meanwhile in Melbourne even the trams (streetcars) are now plastered in hideous woke “contemporary First Nations art”, some of which includes photos of mutilated plastic dolls in various skin colours…
“Public art”, also for a so-called “arts festival”…
Ah, but you see, that wouldn’t be the “right” kind of tourists… taps head
Perth and Sydney both do exactly as you say. And you’re not wrong. Perth’s Christmas light’s in particular are awesome (though Stockholm was better).
But unfortunately the erm… “Powers that be” here aren’t chasing after the dollars of that type of tourist.
Nah, they want pretentious hipster wankers, you see. The type who wear their white guilt on their sleeve, and would literally pay money to bathe in the blood of a dead bull (yes, that really happened, a few years ago)…
Actually, I think the lowlight may be when they successfully solicited donations of blood from (part-)Aboriginals to then soak a colonial-era Australian flag in (literally). That’s about as sick as it gets…
So yeah, that kind of “tourist”. That’s who they are trying to market to.
Not so much “wide appeal” as appealing to the kind of hipster who works for Vice (or whatever replaces it), lives in Manhattan or Mayfair, and, erm, hates their own race… And is probably a trust fund baby. Like the wife of the guy who runs and funds this whole thing literally is.
I love art but I steer clear of art festivals now. Similar to how I don’t go to the major comic cons anymore. Smaller venues are more fun. If I ever make it out to Australia I would love to see the Christmas display
In my nearest city, a few years ago, the local woke arts festival (quite literally a celebration of debauchery and death, but anyway) managed to get municipal funding to put up giant glowing red upside-down crosses…
When local Christian groups complained, they were told to shut up, and that it “brings in the right kind of tourists”…
They would never be even allowed to put up their own crosses off that size, in the right size and colour, let alone getting funding to do so…
But because it’s sex-and-death fest (which started again yesterday), it’s all fine and dandy…
Meanwhile in Melbourne even the trams (streetcars) are now plastered in hideous woke “contemporary First Nations art”, some of which includes photos of mutilated plastic dolls in various skin colours…
“Public art”, also for a so-called “arts festival”…
My country has gone mad.
I guarantee you if they did some Christmas celebration with a huge nativity they would get more tourists
Ah, but you see, that wouldn’t be the “right” kind of tourists… taps head
Perth and Sydney both do exactly as you say. And you’re not wrong. Perth’s Christmas light’s in particular are awesome (though Stockholm was better).
But unfortunately the erm… “Powers that be” here aren’t chasing after the dollars of that type of tourist.
Nah, they want pretentious hipster wankers, you see. The type who wear their white guilt on their sleeve, and would literally pay money to bathe in the blood of a dead bull (yes, that really happened, a few years ago)…
Actually, I think the lowlight may be when they successfully solicited donations of blood from (part-)Aboriginals to then soak a colonial-era Australian flag in (literally). That’s about as sick as it gets…
So yeah, that kind of “tourist”. That’s who they are trying to market to.
Not so much “wide appeal” as appealing to the kind of hipster who works for Vice (or whatever replaces it), lives in Manhattan or Mayfair, and, erm, hates their own race… And is probably a trust fund baby. Like the wife of the guy who runs and funds this whole thing literally is.
Yep.
Shit is absolutely bizarre.
I love art but I steer clear of art festivals now. Similar to how I don’t go to the major comic cons anymore. Smaller venues are more fun. If I ever make it out to Australia I would love to see the Christmas display