think it is fair to say that the western world has more than caught up with the Chinese. Where the Chinese still scribble little drawings to express themselves we use a real alphabet that consists of quite a few different letters as well. Unfortunately I am afraid that I have to dampen my enthusiasm a bit. Our modern society is also home to a group of people that has not gotten past the use of primitive figures to express
themselves. I for one often cannot make head or tail of it. The message that the messenger is trying to convey goes completely over my head. This hasn't gone unnoticed by many graffiti artists who desperately search for ways to get understood and think to have found this in putting their scribbling on every conceivable place. Buildings, buss shelters, bins, lampposts, and even tramps are not spared by the graffiti artists. To me it is very much like raising ones voice when someone does not seem to grasp what is said. Speaking louder then helps. So when the artist is not understood, spray a few more will help. Yeah right. Not being understood seems to take on epidemic proportions by the look of it. Graffiti is everywhere, signalling a deteriorating society. Or is it?
themselves. I for one often cannot make head or tail of it. The message that the messenger is trying to convey goes completely over my head. This hasn't gone unnoticed by many graffiti artists who desperately search for ways to get understood and think to have found this in putting their scribbling on every conceivable place. Buildings, buss shelters, bins, lampposts, and even tramps are not spared by the graffiti artists. To me it is very much like raising ones voice when someone does not seem to grasp what is said. Speaking louder then helps. So when the artist is not understood, spray a few more will help. Yeah right. Not being understood seems to take on epidemic proportions by the look of it. Graffiti is everywhere, signalling a deteriorating society. Or is it?
I came across a little village that stubbornly resists the return to petroglyphs as a way of communicating. 
A village that even has
beaten the graffiti artists to it by coloring in the obvious locations
for the scribblings of these culprits. A marvelous job too as it is much
more pleasant to the eye than the unreadable scribblings of graffiti artists. Wouldn't you agree?
Even the sidewalks are not forgotten, be it that a different technique is applied to prevent premature wear by the many feet that step on them. And when the use of pertroglyphs is inevitable the result at least makes sense to common people. Or let me
rephrase this,
it is readable. The intentions of the artist are not always clear I must confess. It left me puzzled a few times.
Not all is lost then. But let us not lapse into complacency and fully apprehend the gravity of graffiti...
A village that even has
beaten the graffiti artists to it by coloring in the obvious locations
for the scribblings of these culprits. A marvelous job too as it is much
more pleasant to the eye than the unreadable scribblings of graffiti artists. Wouldn't you agree? Even the sidewalks are not forgotten, be it that a different technique is applied to prevent premature wear by the many feet that step on them. And when the use of pertroglyphs is inevitable the result at least makes sense to common people. Or let me
rephrase this, it is readable. The intentions of the artist are not always clear I must confess. It left me puzzled a few times.
Not all is lost then. But let us not lapse into complacency and fully apprehend the gravity of graffiti...
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