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Of course. We were talking about art. I tend to go to the most straightforward interpretations of the more current sociocultural criticisms and theories. And when you start talking about historical objects as art, one tends to be informed by the postmodern and conceptual movements of the 20th century.
Guns as tools rendered as guns as fetishized objects. That is a powerful thing to think on, especially when there are those who see them--whether consciously or not--as fetishized tools. Maybe this last idea is much of what is wrong with gun culture in America. Do we really need to bring them to work with us?
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Knowing that death is certain and that the time of death is uncertain, what's the most important thing?
—Bhikkhuni Pema Chödrön
Humankind cannot bear very much reality.
—From "Burnt Norton," Four Quartets (1936), T. S. Eliot
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