Saturday Morning With Jack Tame

This is the age of the individual. The self. Generation me me me me me.   An age in which each of us is encouraged by a heady mix of technological trends and cultural pressures to think of ourselves as unique and special. To treat ourselves as a brand.  And in a world with every person/brand competing with everyone else, fame and celebrity is often used as a measure of status.  It’s as though Banksy saw it coming. When he – and just for the sake of this morning, let’s assume he’s a he – first started making his subversive street art in the 1990s, he decided to make it anonymously.     I can’t say for sure why he made that decision. Given he was graffitiing public places, I suppose the original decision might have been made for the obvious legal reason – to try and avoid the Police. But as he has grown into one of the biggest artists on the planet, with works selling for tens of millions of dollars, at some point Banksy chose something much greater. In eschewing the fame and individual