Maybe art can be defined as "beauty that cannot be monetized."
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With this model you can then "rank" art. The less easily you can slice it up, the more "divine" it is. Something like Yosemite or the Grand Canyon can be sliced up by charging for admission. Something like Love is even more difficult to slice up.
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Access to "God" is surprisingly easy to monetize since it's considered so large that most people look for an intermediary like a priest or a guru.
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The desire to hold the moon in the palm of the hand often creates some strange effects. E.g. forcing your kid to learn piano, study to suicide, ecstasy pills, cheating, fake painting, instagram addiction, etc...
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They're a form of idolatry. Attributing divinity to a picture or a shadow of the moon rather than to the moon itself. Like worshipping a picture of the finger of the one who was pointing.
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At least worship of the one who points had *some* truth to it. The issue with a photograph is that there's no information in it whatsoever. Depending on how you place it it can point *anywhere*.
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Maybe that's why cats are cool. It's not as easy to "demagnetize" their compass and have them fully align to our personal ideals like dogs. Yet they also seem to have an internal consistency rather than random chaos. They seem to point to ... something....
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