Jumping between radio stations driving in this morning and came across a reading of a comic essay that appeared in the NEW YORKER a few years ago. It's about a caveman society and the narrator is describing life in the stone-age, including this tongue-in-cheek swipe at conceptual art:<\/p>\n
Boog is very good at making words. For example, last week he showed off his new picture at the Main Cave. Everyone was expecting it to be a horse or a bear (all his pictures so far have been horses, bears, or a mix of horses and bears). But this picture was not of any animal. It was just a bunch of red streaks. People were angry.<\/em><\/p>\n \u201cI wanted animals,\u201d the Old Person said. \u201cWhere are the animals?\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n It was bad situation. I thought that Boog would lose his job or maybe be killed by stones. But then Boog stood on a rock and spoke.<\/em><\/p>\n \u201cMy art is smart,\u201d he said. \u201cAnd anyone who does not get it is stupid.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n Everyone was quiet. We looked at the Old Person to see what he would say.<\/em><\/p>\n The Old Person squinted at the red streaks for a while. Then he rubbed his chin and said, \u201cOh, yes, now I get it. It is smart. People who do not get it are stupid.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n A few seconds later, everyone else got it.<\/em><\/p>\n \u201cIt is smart,\u201d they said. \u201cIt is smart!\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n [From NEW YORKER essay \u201cI Love Girl\u201d by <\/a> Simon Rich <\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Jumping between radio stations driving in this morning and came across a reading of a comic essay that appeared in the NEW YORKER a few years ago. It's about a caveman society and the narrator is describing life in the stone-age, including this tongue-in-cheek swipe at conceptual art: Boog is very good at making words. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2881","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2881","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2881"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2881\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2881"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2881"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2881"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}