fifteen plays and $7,248,755

the buddha is feeling queasy again and no wonder...

the new n y times "t" style magazine is out and, "...t's editors and designers had to reimagine the publication's structure and layouts virtually from scratch..."...and why? because they are taking the daring step of presenting fifteen plays in a single issue and confusing fine arts with culture the whole time...nothing new in that...the elite are happy patrons of "the arts" ( especially as investment ) and since they are the "culture" anything they support qualifies

that, while they have presented us with this taste of haute culture that may, perhaps, allow us for the briefest of moments to share some of the special mind set that makes the elite great and so gain deeper understanding, they have raked in $7,248,755 in advertising revenue fro such things as sofas in the $10,000 price range and jewelry that, seemingly, is good enough to eat, is beside the point..our understanding of why the elite is elite is at the heart of their endeavor...

my personal favorite portal of understanding was a play entitled "the kids on the lawn:a song cycle" which opens with the line " we're still just as broke"...a lament which opened my eyes a bit wider...you may notice the inset box with "the children's act" in bold letters...it says, relative to the photograph, "fashion for a new generation, shot at the designer virgil abloh's primary school, anthony overton elementary, in chicago"...my scanner isn't wide enough to have caught the caption for that photo, however it seems those , what, generation z? children who are "still broke" are wearing at least ( one article of apparel is listed as "price on request" ) $12,546 worth of clothing...even the buddha is trying not to puke.