We are used to seeing how Banksy expresses himself through painting – graffiti. Never with words. This time we make an exception…

I was still involved in marketing when I heard the idea of the late Bill Hicks: ‘All marketing nits should be lined up against the wall and shot!’ It must have been that at that time I understood marketing as a noble discipline of informing people about new products in a humorous way, so I was quite surprised by this attitude. I began to wonder what determined his attitude. And as time went on, I had to agree more and more with Hicks. Today, marketing has become a technologically and psychologically perfected manipulation that creates an entire virtual world around people who succumb to it. And unfortunately, today we are witnessing marketing being used as black magic to promote the satanic ideas of the centralized globalist order.

It is no longer just the isolated opinion of Bill Hicks. The accelerated and sinister degradation of marketing has begun to catch the eye of many intellectuals and artists. I remember, for example, Robert Altman, and in 2013 Banksy’s opinion appeared, which I have to translate and leave here. If only a dozen people read it, it will pay off:

“People are taking the piss out of you everyday. They butt into your life, take a cheap shot at you and then disappear. They leer at you from tall buildings and make you feel small. They make flippant comments from buses that imply you’re not sexy enough and that all the fun is happening somewhere else. They are on TV making your girlfriend feel inadequate. They have access to the most sophisticated technology the world has ever seen and they bully you with it. They are ‘The Advertisers’ and they are laughing at you.

You, however, are forbidden to touch them. Trademarks, intellectual property rights and copyright law mean advertisers can say what they like wherever they like with total impunity.

Fuck that. Any advert in a public space that gives you no choice whether you see it or not is yours. It’s yours to take, re-arrange and re-use. You can do whatever you like with it. Asking for permission is like asking to keep a rock someone just threw at your head.

You owe the companies nothing. Less than nothing, you especially don’t owe them any courtesy. They owe you. They have re-arranged the world to put themselves in front of you. They never asked for your permission, don’t even start asking for theirs.”

It's a great introduction into thinking about life…