The US and its puritanical mind-set

Only what
is
useless
can
stand
in for the
stunted use value" draws on the transformation of distinctly European experi-
ences
of
aristocracy.
In the
United States, such
an
idea,
if it
gets
as far as
cogni-tion,
falls
askance
of the
inheritances
of a
puritanical mind that
has

always sus-pected that art does not properly work for a living and might
encourage others to do the same.