Understand that the art world is subject to the same vicissitudes as the natural world: just as there was the Ice Age, so there was also Impressionism. Not that I’m linking them by some weird, mystic tangent. My point is, each artistic era tries to outdo its predecessor either disingenuously, like today’s lot, or authentically, like literally every artistic movement until the 21st century and the YBAs. Duchamp was the milestone in the 20th century, and his deliberate attribution of random crap as works of art has influenced what we’re seeing now. Not because it’s a deliberate and genuine attempt to undermine the artistic elite, but because it damn easy and if it’s crazy enough then you get money out of the same idiots you’re trying to rip off.