Chessmasterrex

Looks like a KMFDM album cover.

John Dillinger had his fans too. I recall going to a wax museum in Indiana dedicated to him. There was a display with an electric chair in it.

Unless there's evidence of an alternative reality, you might as well be talking about leprechauns and unicorns.

Sure. There's no reason not to, considering the brain, which is a physical object. Everything we think and do is a product of the physical world.

Delusions and hallucinations are a thing. Ever feel your phone vibrating in your pocket when it actually wasn't ? That's a hallucination, nothing supernatural about it. Feelings aren't a reliable way to assess reality, and relying on feelings to make decisions is a recipe for disaster.

A vasectomy is a hell of a deal.

I agree, it's very absurd, and that's part of the point. It's also obvious too that someone gives a shit since they're willing to shell out millions of dollars for it. And as far as taping another piece of fruit to the wall, it unlikely to do well because with modern and conceptual art, it's all about who came up with the idea first.

It's really just one of a limited number of licenses which allows the owner of the license to showcase the work and legally regard it as an official work from the artist who first came up with the idea. Anyone can tape a banana to a wall, but only a few can do so and say that it's an 'original'.

It's like a mini veal calf.

Hard to be influenced by ads if one avoids them in the first place. I do a fairly good job at limiting my exposure to advertisements. Some are unavoidable, like outdoor advertisement, or going to a website with ads, but simply tuning out broadcast TV and radio, free streaming services and cable, with a few exceptions of course, eliminates a lot of wasted time on ads. I do pay money though to keep them away on some services. When someone brings up a funny ad that they saw on TV, I often have no clue what they're talking about, and that's great. My adversion to advertisement has been around since at least the early 2000s. I believe it was triggered when I sat down and watched the Weird Al movie "UHF" on Comedy Central and it took 4 hours to the end because of all the ads.