Group suing to block Christo's "Over the River"

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31. If two people had died in the building two dozen bridges (or cathedrals) over 40 years...

would you object to building bridges or cathedrals in the same way?

The over-prioritzation of utility and mass acceptability is an unfortunate side-effect of the industrialization of the human spirit over the last couple of hundred years.

We tend to cut things we see as "utilitarian" a whole lot more slack than "frivolous" activities like art. Even if it could (and has) been argued that on a dollar for dollar basis art is much more important than industry for the experience of being human.

You may not like Christo or his art but to argue its value on the basis you do seems difficult to justify.