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Originally Posted by Dr. Eugene Felikson
I'd really love to own some of John Wayne Gacy's paintings.
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Dude was an artist, no doubt. + As with with any other celebrity, I wish more people were willing/able to separate some personal decisions he made from his talents. I mean, why not? Murder and art are not the same thing. Murder
can be art (to some...), and art
can be murder (to others)...but the two are still very different.
Seems some think we should pay these folks little to no attention, in hopes that that any memory/record of them will fall of the face of eternity. Shit just doesn't work like that...not as long as people exist.
Gacy will go down in the history books, just like Jimi Hedrix, Sid Vicious, John Lennon, and Jesus...of course, some will remain in the history books a bit longer than others, but this means very little. They'll all be there for the rest of our lives, our children's lives, our grand kids. This doesn't mean any of them (Jesus included) are worthy of being worshiped or mimicked...but all are worthy of being considered. They all offered something the masses took seriously, which means that there are lessons to be learned about ourselves and those around us from absolutely every one of them.