But the operative power here in this transaction is Christie's, not SJ. Christie's has not been corrupted by this minor social media phenom. Jill Waddell and Christie's have preceeded her into the realms of dishonesty, false ascription of value, and expert sinuous seduction of the very richest and most corrupt a couple centuries ago.
Bruce Chatwin started out low at Sotheby's and ended up their veep of impressionist (huge Japanese bucks) paintings. He wrote a book about collector and auction psychology -- the only one I know of, except the Afro pomo homo scholarship on museumization (Foucault, also a cruising gay man collector like Chatwin). Auction houses are a piece of work. They eat pretentious provincial narcissists like SJ for breakfast, while relieving the very rich ones of their billions. What has been called concierge service here provided by Christie's to tastemakers? I have no doubt Christie's, like a good concierge, can and does supply their richest clients with Whatever They Want, and do, to keep them as clients.
SJ has almost no agency in this transaction. Christie's is the domme here.
One reason we wear our black bandage shoes, and our buttoned blazer, to do business with them. No bottom energy sweaters and beach boy shirts.
This is a masterpiece of observation. Bring out the spikes.
It occurred to me ... what if {sputter}{sputter} they're all one and the same kind of person. The know the people who provide the laundering services, and I'm not talking about the dry cleaner in the strip center with the Five Guys. One is successfully entrenched, one is adjacent and aspires to need the services and perhaps already does. They have the same thought process, the same values, the same motives.
At the risk of being thrown off the site, I am going to introduce a bit of controversy here. I remember where I was when I heard the news. I felt shocked, saddened. For days afterwards, as the personal stories of those who had died and their families left behind emerged, there was a subdued atmosphere at work. When I went on my only trip to NYC I visited the site and silently paid my respects. I realise this is an important commemoration, particularly for anyone who had any personal connection to this whatsoever, along with anyone else who wishes to be connected to that time today. But life goes on and, twenty years later, I see no harm in this Versailles event. It is not a slight. I am sure everyone has taken a moment today to remember those lost on 09/11. Once this is done, goodness knows. life is short enough. I would not grudge anyone their moments of fun when life, as that day proved can be so fleeting.
At first I had a bad taste, then I came around and thought, right, I think I agree. Because, how many other terrible events have anniversary dates where we'd be admonished to schedule something fun decades later?
How many terrible events have NO anniversary dates at all, where just as many or more people died, but the event isn't popular with the world's leading culture and news media?
There will be no anniversary date for Covid deaths. Because it's been a steady slow drip of death for nearly 2 years now, around the world. Instead of one big horrible event at one time on one day.
Our brains tend to think the big blasts of instant catastrophic events are the worst. I think we put too much emphasis on these things, and not enough on the other steady slow drips.
I despise SJ. But are we going to hold her accountable to soberly observe 9/11 for the rest of her life? It's just another day where she lives. That's just a fact of it.
She's clueless, no wonder her radiators are dousing the downstairs.
