"Get off my back" - Dada Manisfesto by Hugo Ball
This quote is very popular within the urban community. It means do not bother me, leave me alone, I don’t want to be disturbed or it simply just ‘relax’. As said in the link “get off my back” is used get rid of a person or situation without actually being too specific or getting into details, but by simply just indicating disagreeance and discontinuing the situation or conversation at hand. The artist uses this term because it’s unconventional and it’s a new way of saying something that has been said before. The words that would otherwise mean nothing together, until we give it meaning, are being used to hide the true message of what is actually being said. This demonstrates that we hide the truth in words. We convey a message without actually saying what it truly is. Just like after WWI, when soldiers experienced an emotional and psychological downfall it was labeled as Traumatic Hysteria, Soldier’s Heart, War Exhaustion or Shell Shock and then finally recognized as Post Traumatic Stress Disorder when in realty all these terms are just used to hide the truth about the destructive consequences and harsh truth of serving in a war.
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