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apalmer
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Amazon launches Amazon Art marketplace
Art is a racket. Not art as the human endeavor of expression, or art as the appreciation of beauty. Art as a business is ABSOLUTELY a racket in the same way that dutch tulips were a racket once upon a time. Nothing wrong with that at all in my book.
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for the most part, art is a system that society affords itself to observe itself.
apalmer
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Please explain what that statement means, serious not snarky.
smacktoward
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Art is a racket because everything is a racket.
masterzora
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How so?
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