Samoa’s Least Popular Spots
December 4, 2019
By NZB3
Tremain is a treasure. To know what’s going on in the country at any given moment all you’ve needed to do for the last 30 years or so is to read his latest comic.If you see something else then maybe that says more about you? Especially if that unprocessed feeling is disowned and you want to take it out on the artist by getting him flamed, fired, cast out!
Dozens of protesters – many demanding the resignations of cartoonist Garrick Tremain and editor Barry Stewart – gathered outside the ODT’s building in central Dunedin on Wednesday afternoon. – Cartoonist Garrick Tremain stood down pending review over Samoa cartoon; Stuff
Maybe you want to get angry at these bougiouris ladies? But they’re fictional characters created by the artist in order to convey meaning.
To attack Tremain for what these pretend women do makes as much sense as hating on Shakespeare for the wrongs of King Lear or thanking Sean Connery for defeating Dr. Evil and saving the Earth from Zardoz…!
It’s true too, I’ve heard about people who are so down-regulated (aka low IQ) that they can’t tell actors from the parts they play. Guess that makes Suspension of Disbelief really easy for you if you’re like that! The deeply Concrete Mind (and therefore belonging to Slave Culture) of the person who can’t even achieve the abstraction that there are such things as fictional characters and scenarios!
OK, so you don’t get art. You don’t understand the difference between truth and fiction. Accepting that about yourself (and not wanting to change it…like take a course or read a book about aesthetics..) you compound the problem by also being an activist and judge over New Zealand’s comic artists? Trying to get them fired? Such ignorance + vanity!
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