The collective is known for its absurd and anti-establishment creations that highlight the inherent absurdity and
hypocrisy of contemporary global structures and ideologies.
As he uses his zapper to repeat the empty phrase relentlessly, we shiver in recognition at the sickening sameness and hollow
hypocrisy of contemporary politics.
Not exact matches
In our
contemporary culture,
hypocrisy in the service
of ideology is ignored, sometimes applauded.
There are many puzzles about
contemporary liberalism: its inconsistencies and
hypocrisies, its vehement commitments that seem out
of step with liberalism's own professed principles.
Girard's primary example
of such
hypocrisy was the mythological (according to his elaboration
of myth as the perpetrator's justifications for violence) notion
of Mutual Assured Destruction
of the Cold War arms race that was
contemporary with the writing
of his book in the late 1970s.
Contemporary conservatives and liberals alike are not just mistaken in their understanding
of politics; they are for the most part venal sellouts for whom
hypocrisy and mendacity are second nature.
The first he believes is Christianity, the second
hypocrisy.41 Therefore, «if the
contemporary generation
of believers found no time to triumph, neither will any later generation, for the task is always the same and faith is always militant.
The critical discourse about the
hypocrisy, fanaticism, racial intolerance the artist raises are more than relevant and call for constant debate, especially in the current state
of contemporary societies.
The title, which can be read in a number
of ways, comments on the
hypocrisy rife in
contemporary society, mistakes and bad decisions that are hidden, but hinting that their exposure is all to easy.