Criticising others is a career

The ex president of the USA, George Bush Junior, who entertained us liberally with his misuse of our language (Americans don’t have one so my American wife Dottie tells me), has taken up painting in his retirement.  He apparently has allowed some of the public to view his works and particularly the portraits of world leaders he has committed to canvas.

Well, good on him. I hear he takes lessons and is obviously enjoying his time and doing his best with his hobby, not causing harm to anybody and possibly those pictures will bring pleasure to many.

Listening to the opinions on the radio of the so called art critics I confess I became a Mr Angry of Tunbridge Wells (I do know Tunbridge Wells extremely well and there are also many Mr & Mrs Happy residents too).

There is so much misery and trouble in our world created by human conflict, so to hear the verbal abuse and mockery of Mr Bush’s painting skills and artistic talents delivered by these so called ‘intellectual’ critics is very depressing. Fancy making a living by criticising other people who actually do produce something!  Surely one does not have to have much of a brain to find fault. In the UK it has been a national pastime for many, fed by a thirsty media to debunk, destroy and discredit those that do something. It appears that there are those that do and those who criticise. 

No monument has ever been erected to a critic; monuments are only erected to those who have been criticised.