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> I worry that many of us are becoming too distracted with life, logistics, and “productivity” to take time out to experience the things that make us human.

True, but art as an industry created a bubble on its own. Nowadays it gives the perception that it is all about imposture and speculation.

Art, yes. 100k painting with no cultural significance... that's probably more about rich idle hands or money laundering.

I think it's a not uncommon view particularly about fine art as bought and sold in the galleries and auction houses of New York, London, Paris, and Tokyo.