@paninid

WW1 changed pretty much everything. Industrialized war. As a generation of men and boys were reduced to numbers and blown to bits, religion faded as a guiding influence in society.

Something else had to take religion's place. TS Eliot tried to rescue religion, Rilke, too, with his sophistry, a few pimply-faced students thought them very clever.

AI doesn't have a soul, but Warhol's Campbell Soup cans are seen as the apotheosis of consumer culture and fetch large sums at auction.

I'm sick of all the silly screeds about how AI is destroying craftsmanship. Generative art is nothing but a rearview mirror, anyway.