We live in the era of personal and societal disfunction where ethical and moral strictures, religious mores, discussion of mortality and time have all been consigned to the garbage can. All we have to go on is hindsight and the belief that anything worthwhile has already happened. Peter Allen may well have been right in suggesting that we will go on recycling the past forever.
Cultural worth can always be measured by monetary worth or if that fails to impress, an algorithm.
If we were talking about a picture of a gun [not banned at the moment] then I could understand it. Any picture of any gun will likely send people into the streets on a mindless killing spree. In some countries, men in particular collect guns to hang on the wall and salivate over with the eternal hope of being able to legally or illegally kill someone…and of course, many do.
There was no mention of Koon’s dogs with any of these collectors but underperforming football clubs under foreign management may well be seen as analogous to broken art on the market looking for a new owner.
It’s all a matter of who you know
How very odd that the aspect of being human that we value so much may well prove to be the fatal blow to life on earth