Sunday, July 18, 2010

#7 - The prayers of the footballers


The listener agrees with Lincoln: "Both [the North and the South] read the same Bible, and pray to the same God; and each invokes His aid against the other.... The prayers of both could not be answered; that of neither has been answered fully. The Almighty has his own purposes."

Sunday, July 4, 2010

#6 - Protest


Kurwa mać literally means "whore mom" and is the rough equivalent of the American term "motherfucker". There are at least two possible readings of this cartoon:

1. It depicts a popular dissatisfaction so general that specific issues are no longer even raised, the only slogan left being a shout of anger: "MOTHERFUCKER!"

2. Racz is mocking the use of free speech to indulge in coarse language, or as Kierkegaard said, "People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use."

Update: A commenter opines that "motherfucker" is rather the equivalent of skurwysyn (roughly "whore son"), and that the kurwa mać in this cartoon is closer to "god damn it" or "fuck that shit".

Further update: I've made a version of this cartoon with a blank sign so that everyone can put their favorite swear on it. It's here.

Update Feb 2013: An English version now exists!


a photo of Marek Raczkowski

Here's a nice photo of the man.