The baby is at daycare today, so I have a lot of work to do once I finish writing this. Mostly focused on finishing the kitchen renovation. Today is also trash day and I’ve got a nearly empty trash can, there’s plenty of junk in the garage then the long haul down the hill to the sidewalk. My life is still up in the air waiting for paperwork, during this time I’ve been doing a lot of thinking trying to figure out where the world is headed. I know there’s plenty of drama to worry about, but I consider that stuff entertainment if it’s watched through a screen. The real attributes of the world are the words people use, what they spend their money on, and what does leisure look like. The 3,000 year scale interests me more than election cycles. There was a popular video going around of the William Penn statue on top of Philadelphia’s city hall, people were amazed by the detail. I’ve been trying to think what is today’s equivalent to the statue, modern people don’t even believe in great art and it would be hard to get tax payers to finance something purely for aesthetics. The capitalist values capital, what is art worth? Nothing and at the same time is invaluable, that contradiction means 50% of human population is not interested. There are a number of art installations through out Chattanooga that are, I kid you not, metal girders stacked on each other. The girders aren’t arranged in any particular way, they look like piles of debris through out the city. Modern art that “breaks convention” won’t stand the test of time, no one knows what it is because the abstract can’t be named.
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