the zeitgeist report

Slate has a slide show feature on dadaism and asks the tough questions:

Tristan Tzara staged utterly anarchic plays whose bawdiness, obscenity, and sheer cacophony outraged respectable audiences, as if to salve the chaos of war with a chaos that didn't hurt. Such antics raise an essential question about Dada. Was it an antidote to the modern madness, or a culturally destructive symptom of it?

They have a manifesto. It's spectacular. If you don't get it you might be right:

Life is seen in a simultaneous confusion of noises, colours and spiritual rhythms which in Dadaist art are immediately captured by the sensational shouts and fevers of its bold everyday psyche and in all its brutal reality. This is the dividing line between Dadaism and all other artistic trends and especially Futurism which fools have very recently interpreted as a new version of Impressionism.

Here's a little dadaist construct by me based on sonnet by Shakespeare.