Status Updates From Prehistoric Times

this book is weird. i like it.

[A]rt preceded agriculture by some twenty thousand years, so that the old collective dream of fleeing civilization to renew our ties with primitive values and with the first passions of human beings does not entail . . . buying a little ramshackle farmhouse and its fallow land, the practice of painting would be more pertinent — any monochrome painting is more rustic, typical, and authentic than a row of potatoes.