Charles Jencks Manifesto

'Since the 1960s, and the neo-avant-garde, the manifesto has become indistinguishable from marketing.'
'A manifesto has to be self-critical, ironic – it has to criticize its own assumptions.'
'By buying out Fannie Mae, he caused the credit crunch'
(as it caused a lack of investor confidence).
'As if to prove how stupid he was, he let the Lehman bank go to the wall, thus doubling the problem.'
[An Iraqi man dancing in Nike shoes on a burnt-out American jeep]
'The fundamentalists take on aspects of the system they oppose.'