You know, just thinking (and back from a recent trip to Rome), in the times of the old grand paintings, seen in the Vatican museum etc., there were always deliberate messages in them (now studied by art students) because populations could not read. So a pictorial story, with images and metaphors used to tell it, was the preferred way - to inform, so control, the people. I have to say it is an extremely effective, powerful method of getting anyone's message across. Looking at your two pictures reminded me of that. (It's those repeating patterns of behaviour I referred to in another thread, and JR, you alluded to the same notion when you mentioned to cynicalh that you feel "and it all starts over again".)
Without sounding mean (it's not), people operate on quite simple levels, and I think you may have hit on something here. I think that your pictures speak silently, aren't in-your-face crass and deliberately sensational, but straightforward and unassuming yet unashamed...like the Punch images of old? People aren't readily equipped to defend their thoughts against that, they're not expecting it!
Perhaps some big billboard posters around referendum/election campaign time would really say more than a thousand words? Hmm, maybe too easy to criticise as "blatant propaganda". Printing in magazines would be good, or newspapers but I can't see it. Pamphlets are tainted as being biased before they are even read...it needs to be somewhere mainstream, and at the right time, following a signalling of our mood. Would need to be backed up with words in PP Broadcasts, going out in the background, so to speak, be tied in with an overall strategic campaign. I'll shove this post in "Getting our Message Across"...
Do you have a link to where all your images are please? I'd like a look
