It helps for everyone in the world to heap contempt on it, to be sure. And, as we all eagerly await the publication of the latest DSM iteration, everyone is heaping contempt.
But the real way you do it is this: You calmly and amusingly treat it like the joke that it is. You let its absurdity percolate into the culture. For instance, you call your group show of high-profile wacky artists DSM-V.
What? You think this is small potatoes? You get more excited about big-shots like Thomas Insel getting all serious and concerned about the DSM?
Wrong. When the very letters DSM become universal shorthand for whoa way over the top baby you know it’s the beginning of the end.
May 9th, 2013 at 10:15PM
if only art could kill commerce, but tragically there is too much money and too many deeply invested interests at stake for this to die so easily, we must keep after them long after this news cycle moves on.