THIS IS the Queen Victoria statue near Hyde Park in Sydney, Australia. The Queen’s get-up is part of a public art project that “celebrates the power of creativity in unexpected spaces.” Public art is another term for public desecration. Is that a dish brush (or toilet bowl brush) in Victoria’s hand?

The children who see this statue will probably never forget it. They will forever regard the Queen as a buffoon.

Here is Prince Albert:

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Michael S. writes:

Kleerlee u dont appreshe8 Kreativity.

Dont B a h8tr.

Laura writes:

Ha! Ha! It’s trew. I h8t Kreativity. My bad.

John P. writes:

This sort of thing makes me absolutely furious. So juvenile and superficial and with such an obvious political agenda. I [work] as an “avante garde” composer, albeit an amateur, a position anomalous for someone otherwise quite conservative by disposition but my work is based on unusual juxtapositions of traditional structures, materials and processes. Imagine a musical dispute among Palestrina, Mozart and Mahler. But I always attempt (perhaps not always successfully) to do justice to the competing views and I am above all respectful of their contributions. I seek to re-invigorate the Western tradition but not by slavishly imitating what has been done before. What you show here breeds contempt toward modern attempts to sustain our cultural patrimony. We cannot simply write like Beethoven, as much as some conservatives would prefer we do so.

I am well aware of the extraordinarily complex questions that surround such efforts but this – this is contemptible.

Kilroy M. (who sent in the above photos) writes:

As much as the “creators” of this fetishistic exhibit will deny it, the strong undercurrent of hostility to tradition among the liberal arts elites, which is vented frequently by the trivialisation and ridicule of history and aesthetics, is largely part of the momentum behind this kind of “art”, even if only subconscious. The ridicule per se may not be intentional, but the ideology behind it is. Therefore the desecration of these statues is a deliberate act of cultural vandalism. 

This should also be taken in its political context: the left in Australia has vehemently pushed for a republic. They hate the Crown because of its aristocratic symbolism etc (ie, not mass democratic, not pandering to the whim of the lowest common denominator). The push is usually cloaked in disingenuous appeals to nationalist sentiment (the demand for an “Australian” head-of-state is a furthy. Under international law our Governor General is the head-of-state and is and Australian – but I digress). The first referendum was in 1994 under the Labor Party’s Prime Minister Paul Keating, which was defeated. The second was again the hobby-horse of the Labor Party and its cohorts (which was then in opposition) and opposed strongly by the then Prime Minister John Howard (As an aside, he is currently visiting the US and gave a speech in New York about the importance of maintaining Western culture). 

In the state of New South Wales, where these pictures were taken, the governing party has also been Labor for some sixteen years, and counting – in that time the left has tried to surreptitiously push a republican agenda under the radar: examples include the abolition of the title of Queen’s Counsel for senior barristers (what you Americans call trial lawyers), the removal of the Crown from the State Seal, the removal of the life size portrait of the Queen from the lobby of Parliament House, and so forth. These small and symbolic acts may seem not a “big deal” but they are nevertheless powerful: the aim is to eliminate the memory of history and tradition. Children in schools are no longer taught about their system of government in terms that celebrate it. 

When tradition disappears from sight, people no longer respect it, forget it, fail to live it, and it dies. For the left, that’s mission accomplished. That’s the point. Therefore, so much as these liberals say that dressing the statues in drag is part of some “celebration of the power of creativity in unexpected spaces” (typical leftist nonsense rhetoric) it is ultimately about deconstructing and dissolving the past; a manifestation of self-hate. 

The most depressing thing is that I watch people walk past and marvel at them – many seem to actually enjoy this “art.” This genuinely saddens me. So much of our national consciousness has already been eradicated. I’m part of this society and it is dying – that impacts me personally. So much so that the other day I was hoping that some yahoos would torch the offending fabric in the middle of the night. Ha! I, a conservative, am on the way to becoming a radical!

Laura writes:

Reducing Victoria to a joke in this way is much more effective than conventional forms of vandalism. That’s what it is, publicly subsidized, socially approved vandalism.

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