Robert Crumb talking to the New York Observer about the Charlie Hebdo massacre, and how Americans don't appreciate satire — and then this nugget:
You don't have journalists over there anymore, what they have is public relations people. That's what they have over in America now. Two-hundred and fifty thousand people in public relations. And a dwindling number of actual reporters and journalists.
A nihilistic, depressive, anti-social point of view from Robert Crumb? Well, now I've heard it all.
Shocking, I know. But I have to admit, I love him so much.
I don't get this "American's don't get satire" garbage. There is a lot of satire in America and always has been. South Park has been on for 18 years and makes Charlie Hebdo look about as sophisticated as a high school newsletter.
You cannot hope
to bribe or twist,
thank God! the
American journalist.
But, seeing what
the man will do
unbribed, there's
no occasion to.
- paraphrased from Humbert Wolfe
I like R. Crumb, but this is typical ex-pat American shit. Don't like the country? Well, don't try to change anything! Move to Europe/SE Asia/Dubai and bitch about what America does wrong.
