High-class kitsch may well be "perfect" in its form and and composition: the academic painters were often masters of their craft. Thus, the accusation that a work of kitsch is based not on lack of for or aesthetic merit but on the presence of a particularly provocative emotional content. (The best art, by contrast, eschews emotional content altogether.)

The dollar is currently the principal reserve currency in the world.

Trust opens up new and unimagined possibilities.

The brain can be seen as a complex machine, like a gooey computer.

High kitsch, whatever else may be said of it, cannot be openly dismissed as cheap.

If a currency is to become a growing, an increasing reserve currency, there has to be not only a demand for it there has to be a supply of it.

We also confuse trust with familiarity.