{"id":181192,"date":"2016-09-06T20:47:00","date_gmt":"2016-09-07T01:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2016\/09\/06\/who-says-that-irony-is-dead-4\/"},"modified":"2016-09-06T20:47:00","modified_gmt":"2016-09-07T01:47:00","slug":"who-says-that-irony-is-dead-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2016\/09\/06\/who-says-that-irony-is-dead-4\/","title":{"rendered":"Who Says that Irony is Dead?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><a href=\"http:\/\/i.imgur.com\/XbNr7xB.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i.imgur.com\/XbNr7xB.png\" style=\"cursor: pointer; float: right; margin: 0px 0px 10px 10px;\" width=\"300\" \/><\/a>Walmart is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailydot.com\/unclick\/walmart-sells-banksy-destroy-capitalism-print\/\">selling a canvas of Banksy&#8217;s &#8220;Destroy Capitalism&#8221;<\/a>:<\/div>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailydot.com\/tags\/banksy\/\">Banksy<\/a>, the favorite socially-conscious graffiti artist of 15-year old <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailydot.com\/communities\/reddit\/\">redditors<\/a> everywhere, does not hold a copyright to his work. That\u2019s the unfortunate reality of working anonymously on street corners. His style is one of the most recognizable in the world, but anyone can reproduce his murals on shirts, mugs, hoodies, prints, and everything else offered at all your favorite CafePress stores. I guess you could consider that a micro-commentary on consumerist culture\u2014if you were being particularly annoying.<\/p>\n<p>\u2026\u2026\u2026<\/p>\n<p>So, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailydot.com\/tags\/walmart\/\">Walmart<\/a> is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.walmart.com\/ip\/Banksy-Destroy-Capitalism-Canvas-Print-Wall-Art\/41647159\">selling Banksy prints<\/a>. Not one of those nice, pretty, abstract Banksy prints, either. We\u2019re talking a straight-up DESTROY CAPITALISM joint. Also, in Banky\u2019s usual, irritatingly straightforward symbolism, it\u2019s clear that this piece parodies the marketability of chic socialist values. <\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>That sound you hear is Karl Marx spinning in his grave with sufficient speed to exhibit relativistic effects.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Walmart is selling a canvas of Banksy&#8217;s &#8220;Destroy Capitalism&#8221;: Banksy, the favorite socially-conscious graffiti artist of 15-year old redditors everywhere, does not hold a copyright to his work. That\u2019s the unfortunate reality of working anonymously on street corners. His style is one of the most recognizable in the world, but anyone can reproduce his murals &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[960],"tags":[884,775,766],"class_list":["post-181192","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-irony","tag-art","tag-business","tag-evil"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181192"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=181192"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181192\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=181192"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=181192"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=181192"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}