God was here

I was walking outside with Art Burshy and we were passing by a graffiti decoration of the wall.
Art halted and pointed to the drawing that stated "God was here".
"Do you like it?" he asked while checking out my reaction.
"Sure" I said, not even looking carefully.

That was a mistake...it was a graffiti tag that Art himself had sprayed on the wall just last night.
To me it seemed just a 'normal' tag, but Art Burshy of course was ready to give me his views:
- tags in general are a waste of space; it is like dogs pissing on each corner to mark their territory
- in some cases it is creative incontinence - they just can't help themselves
- if you want to practise graffiti you should find your own surface, not ruin walls in public space
- graffiti or any street art should decorate the world and leave a message that makes people reflect
- if you have no message to bring, you should not make any art. And in general, when you have nothing to say you should shut up... seems this reflex is not working anymore for many people.

So I asked Art what the message was in this graffiti expression.

Art frowned and gave me a suspicious look...
"Well, like a joke you should never explain an art work.
If people do not get it, explaining it takes away the magic, it has a risk of making them look stupid, or of making the artist look stupid.
But as a background I have some observations that I can share:
- since people believe less and less in a God they do no longer accept their misery as part of fate.
- people used to accept many things as "this is apparently what God had in mind for me".
- so they have to identify a new way to deal with the shit that happens to them. But they can not blame yourself...
- so they find new remote 'institutions' to blame for anything happening
- they blame the government, or government institutions
- but in democratic countries it is actually really silly...you have voted all for your government yourself
- or they blame immigrants, as if their ancestors were indigenous people still owning the land and the economy on top of it.
So, since God has left it seems the way is open for individualism and people are less and less tolerant and lose their solidarity."

So I asked him if he was religious then?
"What does that have to do with it?" he replied all indignant.
So he left, leaving me all puzzled once again.