Talk:Waiting for Godot

What do the Philistines Think?
Waiting for Godot is the archetypical example of nonsense displacing sense in the 20th century. It forms a neat triangle, with nonsense painting (Picasso) and nonsense books (Finnegan's Wake) at the other corners. In the manner of a prosecuting attorney, I put it to the artistic community that the above items are no better than those random patterns within which the human mind often finds (due to ancient evolutionary pressures) some sort of illusory image or meaning. Having done so, there is then a battle, between differing interpretations, in which the only rule is never to suggest that everyone has been 'taken for a ride'. The item may then 'go viral' in the modern parlance and, particularly in the case of paintings, soon acquires a sky-rocketing monetary value which forever cements it firmly in place. I note that this cultural racket has already been neatly outed by H.C.Andersen (Emperor's New Clothes) and S.L.Clemens (The Royal Nonesuch), but is it not about time for a more robust attack to be made on this blatant artistic scam? A successful assault might even go viral. 78.145.10.148 (talk) 15:38, 26 May 2024 (UTC)