Art Criticism - theories of information - the art of criticism

A bunch of Martians lands on Earth, at Garges-les-Gonesse, for example, meet a human, and ask him what civilization consists of. “It’s a long story! In more recent times, humans have been killing one another in a most brutal fashion... 50 million dead... and since then, to ward off such tragedies, they’ve been cobbling information together, not without a certain brilliance, what is more”. A lengthy silence follows; the Martians look at the parking lot at the shopping mall where their vessel h..