Art Not Only for Art’s Sake
Lately, I can’t shake the feeling that everything around us—from clothes to architecture to so-called art—has only one goal: to shock. It doesn’t matter if something is good, useful, or makes sense or has a purpose—what matters is that it’s different! And even though “different” stops being different when everyone adopts the same style (take, for example, the lumberjack beard, whose originality is now exceptionally eye-catching), for that one small moment, that brief instant, anyone can be a pioneer.