Last year I debated the topic “This House will lose the
battle to win the war”. Obviously, it was a very, very vague topic and my whole team just kind of stared at the words
on the screen like they were the boogieman out to get us. It wasn’t until the
debate was over -- and we had suffered a painful loss -- that I realized there
were some very good ways to define that topic. We should’ve used graffiti. The “battle” would be graffiti
and the “war” would be cleaning up a city. Sure, it was a stretch, but it would’ve
made for an interesting debate.
That debate topic was what led me to the artist known as
Banksy.
