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jehsmith.com is a personal blog at jehsmith.com about culture and philosophy. Since 2008, 6 different Hacker News readers have linked it 13 times. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
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Why HN links it
One commenter links this post as relevant to a thread on overpriced paintings. The post argues that museum art's prestige comes from wealthy buyers putting their names on it.
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What Hacker News says?
This seems relevant: http://www.jehsmith.com/1/2013/02/eefin-and-hambone-or-what-... What gives the appearance of some monopoly on genius to the sort of cultural output that is housed in museums and Lincoln Plaza and so on is just this: that brainless one-percenters are spending huge amounts of money to put their names on these monuments, and the brainless bourgeoisie makes pilgrimages to them, spending medium sums…
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