 All right, let's jump right into it. It is Martin Luther King Day, and I think we should start with a couple of stories about Martin Luther King. One is we'll start with a negative first, and then we'll go to positive. One is over the weekend, a sculpture. A statue was unveiled in Boston, commemorating Martin Luther King. It is supposed to be a sculpture of the embrace that Martin Luther King had with his wife in 1964 when he found out that he had won the Nobel Prize for Peace, an exciting and thrilling event. And this is a sculpture that resulted from a competition, 125 artists and architects submitted designs for this thing, for this sculpture. And I want to show you what won. I mean, again, you'll also see the scale because this is the sculpture that won. This is the embrace. As you can see, it's got features of representational art, hands and arms, decapitated, nobodies, other than the fingers and hands. Hard to tell what the rest is. Some of it's a little obscene, like maybe this angle, which is all over the web. It's ugly primarily because it's disjointed, it's disconnected, it doesn't add up to anything, and it's not human. And it's just elbows and arms and hands and holding something. And there's no Martin Luther King here, there's no his wife, there's no celebration, there's no joy, there's no excitement. It's just, I mean, I think just ugly. The hands are well done, I mean, fine, but it's just ugly. And it's, where's the celebration? Where's the excitement? Where's the elation? He's just won the Nobel Prize. Where's the celebration of this amazing man's life? I mean, agree with him or disagree with him, an amazing man. And he had an amazing life, and he had a massive impact on the world. Not that I'm a big fan of the Nobel Prize. He won the Nobel Prize. Great, let's celebrate it. Let's have an embrace. And you can see that, you can look it up online. You can find the photograph of the actual embrace. And you could have made a magnificent, this is grotesque, it's monstrous, it's disgusting. Is it art? Maybe, but if it's art, it's offensive and just ugly. And it's not doing what it's supposed to do, which is celebrate. And it's not doing what it's supposed to do, which was Martin Luther King. Where's Martin Luther King here? We've got a few hands. It's just horrible. And you could have made the two busts embracing with a face and bodies and somebody. And you could have done a lot of things with this. You could have made it, but this is modern art. This is the negation of identity, the negation of individuality, the negation of the human body, certainly the negation of the human face and therefore the human mind. It's complete negation of identity. Now, I do want to point out here, self-promoting for a minute, that this is an opportunity for us, you, for you in particular. I have what I think is a really, really good talk on sculpture, a really, really good talk on modern art, on the fact that modern art is a scam in a sense, intellectual scam, that it is that it has no clothes. It is an artist has no clothes. This is a great opportunity to link to that, to share that. I've done so on Facebook and YouTube, sorry, on Facebook and Twitter, and linked, put up a photo of this and linked up to my lecture. It's so far garnered about 100 new views, which is not bad. But that's just me putting it up. And a lot of people who follow me have already seen this lecture. But you guys can retweet it. Please retweet it. I know Rob already has retweeted. Please retweet it. Try to get it as much visibility as possible. If we can get people to watch my talk on modern art, I think we can attract some new people. I think we can at least open some people's minds about the atrocities that are out there. It is the one in Scotland. And again, I've already put it up on my Facebook page and I've already put it up on Twitter with the image of this horrific sculpture that doesn't celebrate Martin Luther King at all and is really a disgrace. So please do your share. This is a good opportunity to go to Twitter, go to Facebook, retweet it, share it. Or if you want to go to the original lecture, it's on YouTube and just share it from there, but include a photograph of this ugly, horrific sculpture. So it gives context. And again, we've got to take advantage of newsy items to being attention to the work we do. It's hard to do without linking it to the news. All right, let's see. So that is really all I want to say about this monstrosity. But I think it's in and it's already gone a bunch of criticisms and people making fun of it and so on. But often without any kind of intellectual substance, I think the intellectual substance from my criticism of this is in that lecture. And that's why I refer you to the lecture. 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