Well, I saw an Instapundit post from our friend Sarah Hoyt, who always tends to go a little bit further into the weeds than, because she does the night shift, right?

That's the great thing about the night shift.

You get to talk about all kinds of, like you ever listen to overnight radio?

It's really the most interesting stuff there is.

So she did a post with a graphic warning, and it needs to be there.

And I don't want to talk about the post.

I want to talk about what I learned.

But basically the post she listed was a post showing some of the images that people associated with Balenciaga had been a party to, some of the pornographic images of children.

And when I say pornographic images of children, let me just say that we are talking about

a level of invention that defies imagination.

We're not just talking about pictures of kids.

We're talking about, I don't want to tell you what we're talking about, but it's absolutely

at first sight, immediately repulsive to anybody with the soul.

But what got me interested in wanted to talk about this is not so much the Balenciaga thing, because I think that's just a smaller symptom.

At the bottom of this article was a documentary done by the BBC in 1999, and it was the thing they linked to was, I think, part two of six or something, but it was about

shock art.

It was about, it was about how art went from something to inspire people to something that was

designed to shock people.

And while the format was almost like the kind of thing you want to mock,

British guy walking through a museum, talking, you know, it's like, with that said, it's

a profoundly good look at art from a guy who knows his art. But he started talking with Goya

and how, especially in his last years, Goya was losing his mind.

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