What's written on Dubov's sculpture?

Art seems to have emerged primarily from unquestionably purposeful cultural practices involving rituals for the transmission of social/political ideas, reinforcing them. The notion that it's valuable simply for its own sake does not provide a satisfactory explanation for its emergence and continuance, nor (necessarily) can the idea --now prevalent in the anthro/philo/art circle--that it's a genetic attribute of humankind evolved to promote social cohesion.

In spite of your observations, it now seems even more necessary to generate
"cult-works" as the cycle of decay/degeneration has progressed towards oblivion; the political fabric is destroying the gene pool. As no refutation of your seminal ideas is possible, your demise (by the forces you foresaw) underscores your clarity. This then is a small cult monument to an unknowable/unstable future.

This object is to and for Walter Benjamin's work, it is in regards to his statements; those reflected in the title on these steps. This shrine concerns the aesthetics of orginals in this culture of exhibition-sales values. My generation wanted to maximize resistance and tension against taste. We felt the pretty was a category of easy, therefore distrusted as decorative, due to this idea, the good and the biting become synonymous. In our lifetime, Art has been assimilated into the existing commercial structure and utterly robbed of its critical sting. Where once it was to generate new perceptions, it has been distorted by the media to sell lifestyle taste; it has become ubiquitous décor and is now virtually meaningless and is applied to anything to give it a touch of class. The nihilism one senses in the new art is a reaction to the intensification of materialism as mass culture bottoms out to the lowest common denominator. The ultimate irony is that the democratization of art has resulted in the most undemocratic situation, how you look determines who you are and cash determines caste.