[telescope115]

“Geniuses”….the REAL geniuses were Michaelangelo, Da Vinci, Renoir, etc.

I consider it intellectual laziness to call a banana taped to a wall “genius”.

If I hung a blank canvas on a wall and came up with the right title for it, I could sell it for a million bucks.

[Joe 6-pack]

"I consider it intellectual laziness to call a banana taped to a wall “genius”.

The genius is not as an artist, but as a marketer. Turning a strip of duct tape and a banana into $6.2M has to be one of the greatest returns on investment in history. In pure terms of a free market economy, the guy provided a manufactured good to somebody willing to pay an exorbitant amount for it. Good for him.

That somebody with that kind of cash was willing to shell it out is more a comment on the nihilism of our culture than it is on the marketer who merely took advantage of it, and is now laughing all the way to the bank.

[Deaf Smith]

Is this “artwork” the reason Elon Musk suspended a banana on a string inside his Space X vehicle that was recently launched?