Is art/aesthetics/this listserv just part of the irrelevant minutiae of life?

[joseph berg]

"...Society, once freed from the burden of merely existing, begins to focus
more on the irrelevant minutiae of life?"

http://kaganof.com/kagablog/2012/03/02/5-suna-no-onna-woman-in-the-dunes-hiroshi-teshigahara-1961-jap/