That's just my stupid opinion though...everyone has their own tastes and interests. And that's ultimately what this all has been boiled down to, a sprawling landscape of highly specialized knowledge with no visible dialectical landmarks sweeping us away into a thrilling and unfurling grand narrative. Nope. Not anymore. People that try to make vast summarizing arguments for the purpose of weaving their own projects into a place of eminent relevance are hopelessly misguided and should probably stop. Art should act as its own argument...theory is not a life raft for a bland and mediocre practice. Furthermore, it becomes increasingly apparent that everything is somehow equally relevant...just as the measure of relevance becomes more and more the property of the individual. At the end of the day I think it turns out to be a lot better and more democratic...and really takes a lot of the ego and self-important posturing out of the act of being an artist. Hooray for the 21st century!
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