Direct from Quare's Website...

[eredien]

...is a picture of this terrifiying police poster in Britain.

The commentary below the poster talks about Orwell's 1984, but I was reminded of the excellent graphic novel V is for Vendetta - the art style, the strange surrealist atmosphere of parts of it, the colors, the message. Everything.

It's really sad to think that this poster is not a movie prop for either of those distopian visions.

Comments

Re: and even more...

[thespooniest.livejournal.com]

Why is there anyone that thinks this is a good idea? There are two types of people who do.

One type is, as we all know, the power-hungry bastards who want to control people. Luckily, in the past they never managed to get all that far. Thus, while their existence was cause for concern, they were never much of a real problem.

Unfortunately, 9/11, the sniper, and such, have given rise to a bunch of cowards, running to a government for protection it can't give them and deep down they know that but they're not willing to face the reality with anything remotely resembling courage because it's just not as comfortable as before. These people wouldn't be a problem either, except that the aforementioned power-hungry bastards have latched onto this group, and are doing everything they can to make that group as big as possible, because they could get their plans implemented with the support of the sheep.

I'm afraid I don't see too much hope in the situation. Not unless someone or something can inspire real courage in the masses again.

Re: and even more...

[weirdquark]

*sighs* yeah. I know, I know. Sometimes I like to pretend the world is as rational as I am, but it's just not so.

Gotta do something about those masses. Don't know what, thought, I'm afraid.