{"id":78233,"date":"2021-06-08T11:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-06-08T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=78233"},"modified":"2021-06-08T11:22:31","modified_gmt":"2021-06-08T16:22:31","slug":"counterintuitive-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=78233","title":{"rendered":"Way Too Good To Fact-Check"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

A lot of people are yukking it up over this story<\/a> – yep, including me<\/a> the other day. You recall it – Italian “artist” selling an “invisible sculpture” \/ block of air \/ “vacuum full of energy” for $18,000. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

“The vacuum is nothing more than a space full of energy, and even if we empty it and there is nothing left, according to the Heisenberg uncertainty principle, that ‘nothing’ has a weight,” Garau said of the statue according to as.com. “Therefore, it has energy that is condensed and transformed into particles, that is, into us.”<\/p>

Italy 24 News report<\/a>ed that per Garau’s instructions, the sculpture must be displayed in a private home free from any obstruction, in an area that is about 5 ft. long by 5 ft. wide. Because the piece does not exist, there are no special lighting or climate requirements.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

The story was, to say the least, thinly sourced, to the point where the BS meter is howling. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

On the other hand? This, along with the “dumpster fire” last week in Uptown Minneapolis, is the ultimate metaphor for society today. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

It’s a cube of nothing – that means whatever the viewer can conjure from it. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

It’s no different than “woke”-ism. Or “Critical Race Theory” . Or “Whiteness” theory. All of them are conclusions that are left to the viewer to fill in any way they want. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Signore <\/em>Garau may be a garbage artist, and a con man extraordinare<\/em> – even if you assume the story isn’t a hoax (and I’m abou 50-50 – mixing wealthy Frenchmen and dubious “art” is never completely implausible.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But the metaphor he is alleged to have constructed may be the best bit of literature, or at least the best bit of (unintentional?) literary symbolism of the year. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Whether it happened or not. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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