🏛 Not All Cabinets of Curiosities Should Be Opened – Pipeaway Newsletter #194

Hi from Athens!

I made a quick stopover in Greece, as I am heading even further south. But I spent the beginning of my November in Switzerland.

In fact, after five months, I returned to Basel, the country’s cultural capital, with cabinets of curiosities ranging from some of the best museums via Swiss cosplay events to Eurovision scandals where the neighboring canton of Baselland finally had to take the blame for that curious case of Baby Lasagna‘s banned YouTube videos.

Before Christmas decorations took over this never-boring city, Basel hosted its Basler Herbstmesse, one of Europe’s longest-running city fairs, held in this town since 1471!

But away from the Christmassy noise, in one unassuming passageway in the city center, I found an art piece that became the real talk of the town, at least its art circles.

I’m speaking about Mason Storm‘s Trump, “Saint or Sinner?”; if you want to read why, in the end, the crucified US President failed to truly impress me, you’re more than welcome.

But as I am, at the moment, here in Athens, the birthplace of democracy, I try to remind myself that everyone’s voice should have an opportunity to be heard. So I’m not against Mason Storm asking us his bizarre question seriously.

Then again, even Greek democracy had its own set of fallacies; women, slaves, and foreigners could not cast their votes.

So, sometimes, the system’s failure is not in giving the wrong answers to the world’s problems (Donald Trump’s case could suggest differently). The issue could be in asking the wrong question in the first place (as Mason Storm’s case shows us).

Have a questioning week,

Ivan Kralj        
Pipeaway.com

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Award-winning journalist and editor from Croatia