Zeitgeist ‘So, team, how’s The Crisis going?’
Zeitgeist Area Manager (artsdivision) ‘Business is slow today boss.’
Zeitgeist ‘Oh that’s a shame. No seismic shifts in contemporary art production to report? No return to Enlightenment values of technical skill and transcendent moral values detected? No realization on the part of humanity that creativity is innate within them all and that its commodity role within the capitalist realist world-view is fundamentally wrong?’
Zeitgeist Area Manager ‘’Fraid not, chief.’
Zeitgeist At least tell me that Damien Hirst has retired or gone bankrupt?’
Zeitgeist Area Manager ‘Sorry to report, captain, but in late 2009 he gained much attention for turning to painting awful pastiche Francis Bacons.’
Zeitgeist ‘Bugger.’
