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foldrtoday at 8:38 AM2 repliesview on HN

As shown by this savage Charlie Brooker takedown: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2006/sep/22/arts.v...


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finnthehumantoday at 12:39 PM

>Renegade urban graffiti artist Banksy is clearly a guffhead of massive proportions, yet he's often feted as a genius straddling the bleeding edge of now. Why? Because his work looks dazzlingly clever to idiots. And apparently that'll do.

- Creator of Black Mirror, 5 years before series premiere

pydrytoday at 10:17 AM

This reads more puerile and jealous than savage.

It's got just the right mix of highbrow disdain, unironic self righteousness and naughty language to titillate the average guardian reader though.

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