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Does life imitate art, or does art imitate life? Either way, the writing on the wall bodes ill.  I've long believed that we are ankle-deep in a worldwide art crisis. Today, "art" is at an all-time low.  This was just an idle thought I had—an unmoored opinion I felt in my gut—until I stumbled upon something a few weeks ago. You may or may not be surprised to discover that not just one, but several YouTube "content creators" (what a sterile, unimaginative description) have used modern technology to isolate the previously, and intentionally inaudible audio of Bob Harris' (played by Bill Murray) final whisper into the ear of Charlotte (played by Scarlett Johansson) in Sophia Coppola's second directorial effort: Lost in Translation (2003) so that anyone and everyone can hear for themselves what he said to her in the final scene of the film. And, naturally, Friedrich Nietzsche sprang immediately to mind. Much has been made of Nietzsche's "Go...

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