Sacrificing chickens to Moloch ala Cheryl Mills email
I have a relative who traveled to the Olympics one year, before the Iron Curtain fell - it must have been Sarajevo.
She went to an art gallery (she was someone who had gotten her degree in art and architecture) and said that it was one of the most depressing ‘art’ experiences of her life - no beauty, nothing uplifting, everything pedestrian, dull, dark. She also said that all of the natives she encountered seemed to be chain-smokers, and/or drunk.
There was no real *inspiration* in the lives of the people.