I think that’s a good way of thinking about a lot of art, or really anything where there isn’t some objective metric for better vs worse. The value is in the st

I think that’s a good way of thinking about a lot of art, or really anything where there isn’t some objective metric for better vs worse. The value is in the story behind it, and a major part of this story is that it was made by the hands of someone noteworthy, regardless of its intrinsic value as an art object. I think the interesting thing is that the value of a story is mostly in someone’s belief, or even faith, in that story. Even a ridiculous, nonsensical story can be powerful as long as people believe in it. People believed in the story of Hitlers purported diaries in the 1980s, just as they did with Enron and sun prime mortgage backed securities in the 2000s. Things are worth something if and only if people believe the story that they are.