To your question- "Do you think that our ancestors had to deal with graffitti before the barbarian invasions?"
Of course yes ! Cave paintings are the earliest graffiti :) . Graffiti are social reportage "in your face".
And that parking lot ! It blew me ! It is like the parking video game !!!! Stuck & Lost !
Great seeing a glimpse of Plaka district, @onceuponatime .
Bur the best part was the distinguishable "distinguished" street art. It is "beautiful" :). And the "Hero" is awesome.
I don't agree. Cave paintings were the culture of the time, not a desecration of culture.
Grafiitti is scrawling your gang sign on the Mona Lisa. It is barbaric, ugly, disrespectful, futile, and leads nowhere but to further degradation of the society.
Can we turn things around?
Yes, in this sense graffiti is direspectful and ugly as compared to cave paintings.
However, I was primarily talking about graffiti and cave paintings , both expressing the social sentiment of their respective times.
We are living in a social atmosphere of disrespect, chaos , crime, distortion and ugliness. Graffiti of today reflects the same.
Perhaps we can turn things around. But for things to turn around, first a cycle needs to end. The dilapidated tower needs to collapse before a new tower can come up.
We are living the tower moment as they say in Tarot.
And we do have beautifully structured street art.
This reflects that b attempt to restore the society is definitely underway .
Let us do our bit and have faith, @onceuponatime .