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Dubno’s diagnosis of cultural elites as creatively, intellectually, and morally bankrupt is well-suited for our current sociopolitical moment. Americans’ trust in institutions, from the federal government to traditional news sources, is hitting historic lows. At the root of this distrust seems to be a feeling that those leading these institutions are more interested in pursuing private gain or promoting a fashionable ideology than they are with serving higher ideals like truth or the common good. In many ways, the culture has already called B.S. on the entire class of people to which the objects of Dubno’s derision belong. Those so-called artists in New York who are afforded great prestige for creating works they claim interrogate “notions of performativity, of objects’ existence in space, of ontology” have lost legitimacy in the eyes of so many. We are now all able to admit that the emperor has no clothes.
