New LDS Art

[_Chap]

It's depressing.

After WWII, and while the rest of the world was painfully licking its wounds and trying to get enough to eat, Americans enjoyed decades of prosperity as their undamaged factories turned to making color TVs and big shiny gas-guzzling cars instead of walky-talkies and tanks. These goods could be sold into a domestic market flush with wartime savings that could at last be cashed in. Times were good. More recently, Americans borrowed like there was no tomorrow to maintain the standard of living they had come to see as a God-given right, and this was not, to put it mildly, done at the encouragement of a series of Presidents addicted to socialism or even social democracy.

Now Americans face a world in which the manufacturing which was once the key to their prosperity has moved to countries which are beginning to do it better, for less. Their elementary education system, once the envy of the world, is ceasing to produce young people who want to know how to do hard things like science and math. They owe big-time, and a lot of the money they borrowed went on stuff that did them no permanent good. A whole lot else is going wrong in ways that make it clear that the good times are not coming back like they used to be, ever: the world changes, and it is the turn of other places to get richer.

And whole crowds of Americans believe in their puzzlement and distress that if only they dress up as Washington or Jefferson, wave the Constitution in the air and chant about smaller government, somehow it will all come right again. These dumb paintings we are discussing are just one small symptom of that.

[_The Dude]

Nice Sethbag!


Hey, the same guy who is cutting the chain in the first one is moping on the bench in the one Zeez posted. Same guy, but no chicken. What's that all about? I think McNaughton should put a chicken in all his paintings.

[_The Dude]

It's depressing.

After WWII, and while the rest of the world was painfully licking its wounds and trying to get enough to eat, Americans enjoyed decades of prosperity as their undamaged factories turned to making color TVs and big shiny gas-guzzling cars instead of walky-talkies and tanks. These goods could be sold into a domestic market flush with wartime savings that could at last be cashed in. Times were good. More recently, Americans borrowed like there was no tomorrow to maintain the standard of living they had come to see as a God-given right, and this was not, to put it mildly, done at the encouragement of a series of Presidents addicted to socialism or even social democracy.

Now Americans face a world in which the manufacturing which was once the key to their prosperity has moved to countries which are beginning to do it better, for less. Their elementary education system, once the envy of the world, is ceasing to produce young people who want to know how to do hard things like science and math. They owe big-time, and a lot of the money they borrowed went on stuff that did them no permanent good. A whole lot else is going wrong in ways that make it clear that the good times are not coming back like they used to be, ever: the world changes, and it is the turn of other places to get richer.

And whole crowds of Americans believe in their puzzlement and distress that if only they dress up as Washington or Jefferson, wave the Constitution in the air and chant about smaller government, somehow it will all come right again. These dumb paintings we are discussing are just one small symptom of that.

Well said, Chap.

Does Occupy Wall Street have a Jon McNaughton? Seems they could use an artist to depict their own symptoms as "eloquently".

[_Sethbag]

Hey, the same guy who is cutting the chain in the first one is moping on the bench in the one Zeez posted. Same guy, but no chicken. What's that all about? I think McNaughton should put a chicken in all his paintings.

Kind of quick and dirty, but here goes...

[_The Dude]

Kind of quick and dirty, but here goes...

Oh, the humanity. WTF?

LOL. Thanks Seth

[_3sheets2thewind]

Can't wait till this d-bag paints romney on a white horse

[_3sheets2thewind]

Wtf is jfk doing standing behind Washington

[_zeezrom]

Wtf is jfk doing standing behind Washington

And why isn't JFK wearing Ray Bans?

[_Buffalo]

Hey, the same guy who is cutting the chain in the first one is moping on the bench in the one Zeez posted. Same guy, but no chicken. What's that all about? I think McNaughton should put a chicken in all his paintings.

Kind of quick and dirty, but here goes...

Oh man, that's great! lol

[_Doctor CamNC4Me]

This is on the front page of the Drudge Report right now. :)