We think this poster is attempting to capture something of a spirit of Victorian, Edwardian, even Weimar decadence. We've seen better and worse in posters. We feel that the nineteenth century, and the past in general, should be viewed with greater depth than a simple insistance on its inferiority or superiority based on modern day notions of what constitutes repression or liberalism in society. For crying out loud, what would Karl Marx and Sigmund Freud say about our own mad world?
editor's note: cameo appearance by president Bush!
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