Invocation of Orwell... check.
Piss Christ... check.
US-centrism... check.
&quot;Western culture&quot;... check.<p>Well that&#x27;s a pretty standard Decline of Civilization article there. Well done!<p>There are issues with modern art and sophomorism, yes; essentially, the big problem with art is artists, and the way they learn to spew bullshit about their production.<p>There are also big problems with architecture, which is really a τέχνη, and not really an art in the fine arts sense; big architecture spends a lot of time on arty one-upmanship and not enough on the practical matters that make a building work and last.