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I think the major event of the last 500 years is the loss of faith. It's the disenchantment

of the world, the loss of faith in God. And so all our art speaks about it. And what happens

to the female body is that it disappears. First, it becomes nude. That's the first thing. It loses

its majesty. Instead of being the Virgin Mary, the Virgin Mary becomes humanized, which is very,

very beautiful. And then over time, the Virgin Mary becomes humanized, which is very, very beautiful.

And then over time, as the idea of God disappears, you get the impressionism and the abstraction

where we cease to trust our own perception. Our perception becomes a lie, an illusion,

which it would have to be because we perceive ourselves as selves, right? And that, as you say,

the creature disappears if God disappears. And so it must be an illusion that, as you say, the creature disappears,

if God disappears. And so it must be an illusion that we're a self. I'm just an an, I'm just a machine

that's sitting here and AI can replace me and all this nonsense that we believe. And that is all in the

paintings. It's all in the paintings. The female body specifically falls apart. By the end of it, you get Jackson Pollock sprinkling paint.

And as you say, it represents the time.

So it has some value.

It shows us to ourselves.

But when we see ourselves in that, we should be horrified.

Instead of giving the guy a million dollars,

we should be going to a collective psychiatrist

and sort of curing this mental illness.

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