Aren't we all? Like, at the end of the day humanity doesn't need to exist but we do and our lives are filled with what we'd term meaningful experiences. But literally we are going to die. What's art in a context where other people have been drawing "pretty" representations of jesus for a few hundred years then, and machines can print photos, and with the same mode of production that brings us the camera humanity demonstrated industrial murder just a few decades ago -- What's useful here? What's progress in art from that background? And for that matter, the most important antidote to the article above is asking yourself honestly what the hell does the far majority of today's art actually look like? Turns out there's not an epidemic of boring pineapples in glass cages around the world - something one could pick up on if they went to an art show or a museum. Sitting around frothing at the mouth about a college student putting a pineapple on a pedestal as a joke is not a searing critique of artists and curators, and of how they're all dumb and blind to irony afterall. No, that's just completely friggin dropping the ball, missing the mark, and not able to pass muster. Think about it: there wasn't really an incredible amount of artists or industry-related folks gushing over this piece that everyone in this thread so skillfully identified as bullshit; no, the only people who care even remotely about this pineapple are the kind of people who consistently make themselves sound as if they really just hate art.