This is why I said my fears are based my experience of the world, not specific knowledge of the futurists. I don’t know exactly when my view of academic facts curdled, but they did, I took away an opinion that much of what is considered facts in art history are politically motivated presentation of partial truths. What was the context of this manifesto that everyone likes to point out? Manifestos are regarded as pretty unimportant to actual artists. Talk is cheap. Work is hard. The kinds of artists who produce manifestos are either kidding or quickly forget about it in the face of having to produce good work. Which is an iterative process that reveals that what you think about it matters not a whit.
Editing to add that there is a third kind of artist that produces manifestos, forgettable ones.
