| Cubism brought the omniscient narrator into the visual arts & | traveling far enough from the center of the universe makes the universe seem actually tiny & finally, imperceptible, all that is time-travel, god & ordinary life: is relativity, the math of the diameter; quantum mechanics, that of the circumference | the Russian avant-garde of the 'teens & 20's applied these principles to typography to serve the supposedly omniscient Soviet State; | an early cold war project of the NSA was to fund the arts as propaganda | 1950's & early 60's America saw unbridled expressions of mass, individual, artistic & intellectual creativity: facilitated in large part by the invention of LSD by the CIA | so far the greatest mind of recent times has been essentially a disembodied brain; RIP Stephen Hawking | the future points to our brain being salvageable from the polluted mess of the body;
| Under Gretchen Carlson Miss America is to be judged on brains alone | That's Avante-Garde, *****