With the tragic destruction of part of the Notre Dame in Paris we see how screwed our world really is and my blood boils as everything that is wrong with our beautiful world is illustrated concisely in the events of the last several days. The Notre Dame, hypocrisy and flames. Before I rant, I wish to emphasise that I am an art school graduate, practicing artist, with an attuned appreciation for beauty. I love culture and travel, and adore mooching around museums, stately homes, castles, churches and cathedrals. Nothing is more wonderful than history made manifest and embodied through human creation, and the loss of any artefact, ancient site or building is always beyond sad and makes my heart bleed and my soul sag ever so slightly. And yet I find this latest loss mightily irritating on many fronts for I see hypocrisy and priorities askew; and people rallying to the aid of an institution which has no need of aid at all; and, on balance is bloody undeserving of any charity. Hypocrisy –...
