Shep, I’ve seen pics of the old Andre the Giant posters and those don’t exactly look like the work of a genius.
He was aiming for lowest common denominator when he came up with OBEY GIANT.
He also pilfered two messages from They Live. OBEY and THIS IS YOUR GOD.
He studied the craft of Soviet and NAZI propaganda poster art (lifting swipes freely from both).
He’s a propagandist serving the State and seeking to make the populace OBEY and worship materialism.
He is what he claims to be against.