This is how you win a Culture War!

This is just sheer brilliance, and another Stumbleupon discovery.



Joseph Griffith from PeachStapler is an artist with a flair for the kind of subject matter that interests me very much. The picture above, The Surrender, is a monument to the cultural war between Western Civilization(especially America) and the fundamentalist Islamic world, painted for the 225th anniversary of the Battle of Yorktown. Even without those connotations, it is still a fabulous piece of art from a pop cultural standpoint, and it really resonates with me.

Griffith is someone I am going to keep an eye on... he recently posted a new painting based around the world of Labyrinth.

Tags: culture war, fundamentalism, islam, soft power, joseph griffith, peach stapler, yorktown, the surrender, george washington, kool aid, steve irwin, waldo, bin laden, death star