To speak thus is to use the aesthetic as an anesthetic.

I finally got the chance of trying out the McB, McDonald’s new ecological burger tonight after a visit to the opera.

In the performance “Ten Billion” at La Chartreuse de Villeneuve-lès-Avignon Stephen Emmott, a scientist, performed a soliloquy about the state of the world and the environment. He took a message we already have known since the Club of Rome and rehashed that in front of a theater audience over the course of ninety minutes.