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==Artwork== The album's cover artwork, designed by King, shows the influence of the Situationist International, a left-wing organization which became famous for inspiring the events of [[May 68]] in France. It depicts an "[[indigenous peoples of the Americas|Indian]]" shaking hands with a "[[cowboy]]" in three heavily processed versions of the same image, based on a still from one of the [[Winnetou]] films starring [[Lex Barker]] and [[Pierre Brice]], which had once been popular in [[East Germany]] as narratives critical of capitalism. Their faces are reduced to blobs of red and white: that is, to their stereotypical skin colours. A text that winds around the images reads: "The Indian smiles, he thinks that the cowboy is his friend. The cowboy smiles, he is glad the Indian is fooled. Now he can exploit him." In this way, it approaches themes of exploitation, but may also criticize simplistic popular depictions of ethnic, social or political conflicts as "cowboys and Indians".{{cn|date=April 2024|reason=A source is needed for the interpretation of the cover art in this last sentence.}} The album's back cover depicts a family whose father says, "I spend most of our money on myself so that I can stay fat", while the mother and children declare, "We're grateful for his leftovers". On the album's inner sleeve, designed by Gill, small photographs depicting scenes shown on television are interlaced with text illustrating what the band suggests are the misleading [[subtexts]] of media presentation: "The facts are presented neutrally so that the public can make up its own mind"; "Men act heroically to defend their country"; "People are given what they want".
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