Friendly Graffiti

[JustGeorge]

"You're a great person!"

"Have a wonderful day!"

"Love and Peace"

Some of the things I've seen graffitied on things here and there recently.

Meanwhile, the formerly tame political signs that have always been around sometimes have profanity. Flags with "**** [candidate]" fly.

As the political scene in the US gets uglier, the graffiti gets friendlier. As a kid, I remember seeing mostly potty words written on stuff. Now, its words of encouragement. And, looking at the handwriting, and locations... I think much of its from kids.

The think our children are more mature than the generations in charge... and that's a little scary.

Thoughts?

 

[ChristineM]

The graffiti around where i live tends to be unionist members complaining about the government.
If the far right gets in i can see that graffiti becoming a whole new ballgame

 

[Eddi]

At university I had a regular seminar in a class room that was next-door to some of the university's public toilets, for staff and students

My whole tutor group met there once a week, there was about twelve of us, and it was for a Sociology module

I was once using one of those next-door toilets so thought I'd leave some hilarious sociology graffiti about the Sociological concept of Anomie which we had recently covered - on the wall of the cubicle

Anomie - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

Two weeks later some other person had replied to it in a very academic way

Like a kind of low-tech internet forums

I can't remember what any of it actually said but at the time it was hilarious, especially not knowing who had replied, the anonymity combined with the shared familiarity with a Sociological concept was very funny