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I suppose one can “brag” about most anything. Seems to me, though, that a brag about “owning” an arbitrary sequence of bytes is pretty damn empty. Overcome a c
by moistly 6y ago
I suppose one can “brag” about most anything. Seems to me, though, that a brag about “owning” an arbitrary sequence of bytes is pretty damn empty.
Overcome a challenge that presses your personal limitations? Worthy of a brag: you took up the task, persevered, and conquered.
Open your wallet to purchase something? I just don’t see that there’s any legitimate boasting to be had there: any damn fool with the same money could do it. There is no challenge, there is no accomplishment, there is nothing to be proud of at all. It’s such empty bragging.
IMO people who brag about owning things have deep personal insecurities and would be better off putting the money spent towards therapy.
- koonsolo 6y agoHaving a unique and quirky item is worth a brag. Bragging with an expensive Rolex is very different than bragging with the NFT of a terrible image of the Brooklyn Bridge by John Cleese who sold it as a joke.
- dexterdog 6y agoExcept there is nothing unique about it.
- evilDagmar 6y agoJohn Cleese has done how many pieces of architectural art now?
- moistly 6y agoNor anything unique about a Rolex. Can’t see how a purchased watch qualifies for bragging. It takes no skill, no dedication, no smarts, no gumption to open one’s wallet to purchase a watch. The person who built the watch might have something to brag about.
- dexterdog 6y agoA Rolex is an actual thing with a function and an intrinsic value. It can be copied, but only at a significant cost.
- qeternity 6y ago> Open your wallet to purchase something? I just don’t see that there’s any legitimate boasting to be had there: any damn fool with the same money could do it. The item isn’t the brag. The purchase is. People don’t buy Rolxes because because it doesn’t anything radically different than a $50 watch. They buy it because it tells people they have money. That’s what art is. That’s what NFT is.
- jancsika 6y ago> That’s what NFT is. Yeah, but who gives a shit whether it's centralized or not? If some intrepid reporter figured out that NFT has a backdoor that means it is being controlled as a-- god forbid-- centralized service, what bad thing happens to the dipshit who paid a million dollars for Rick and Morty digital art?
- qeternity 6y agoI agree with you 100%.
- AshWolfy 6y agoI cant think of anything more depressing than saying art is showing off you have money.
- koonsolo 6y agoDo you think the person that buys a Picasso is: A) The world biggest fan of Cubism and a lifelong fan of Picasso. B) A person with a shitload of money, that has nowhere else to put the money than in some famous artwork.
- qeternity 6y agoI am not saying that all art is like this. But I am saying that a large part of the fine arts world is like this.