Text-based art.

Lessons have been learned – or have they?

Whenever I hear a spokesperson apologising for the consequences of ineptitude by says “Lessons have been learned” I shake my head in resignation.

In this example of my text-based art the response to the statement “Lessons have been learned” is basically that we never learn and we’ll keep making the same mistakes.

Obviously in each individual case in which someone says “lessons have been learned” there will be a few superficial lessons learnt, but at a deeper level the inevitability of things going wrong again is painfully obvious.

I think it’s partly the fact that the statement is used as an attempted get-out that jars with me.