I think if you are an outsider and you don't have the requisite vocabulary and the imbedded knowledge to appreciate things, then it can look like a smarter thing to do. Even if it's highbrow, like modern art. A lot of people are dismissive or even derogatory, like, oh, my five year old could have done that. It seems absurd to them. I felt like that about modern art. Now, i am the daughter of an artist, and i remember going through museums and thinking like, the vase with flowers is art. The portrait of this young woman is art, but lke, what the hell is that blotch of red? So when ive