The Tower of London, poppies, art, champagne and bombs
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Just days after the extended end of the ceramic art, poppy display designed to commemorate the centenary of the first world war, the Tower of London hosted a luxury black tie dinner for the arms industry.
I don't know about anyone else but to me that rivals any conceptual art "installation" yet. The idea it expresses so perfectly is that of, capitalist hypocrisy.
Someone must have known how it would look? Or perhaps synchronicity was at work here? Because when you combine this with the sanitizing of the song "No man's land" for the centenary, the contempt the establishment have for us couldn't be more blatant.
Will our people, the workers of the world, ever learn?
"And I can't help but wonder, now Willie Mcbride,
Do all those who lie here know why they died?
Did you really believe them when they told you 'The Cause? '
Did you really believe that this war would end wars?
Well the suffering, the sorrow, the glory, the shame
The killing, the dying, it was all done in vain,
For Willie Mcbride, it all happened again,
And again, and again, and again, and again"From "No Man's Land" by Eric Bogle
http://www.worldsocialism.org/spgb/forum/events-and-announcements/remembrance-day-song
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