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The Bananas Absurdity of Bro-Capitalism
It’s not about money, art, or bananas
A recent headline caught my eye.
Cryptocurrency investor buys a controversial duct-taped banana for $6.2M at auction — and plans to eat it.
Sure enough, said investor did allegedly eat said banana artwork. Allegedly; bananas don’t age well. Was it really the same banana? But conspiracy theories are for another time and place.
If said investor was making a pointed statement about the absurdity of modern art, that would make at least some sense. Duct-taping an object, any object, to a wall is not art, not even in the most expansively Derridean deconstruction of artistic meaning.
Said investor wasn’t making a critique or philosophical statement. Instead, he was being a bro. Specifically, he’s a crypto bro. I wrote about them before.
