Concerning "Neutral" Media of Exchange

Weapons are ominous tools.
They are abhorred by all creatures.
Anyone who follows the Way shuns them.

(Laozi, Tao Te Ching XXXI)

So, in times where the use of money is weaponized...

Unswept House

Lest you think conceptualist art is a unique plague upon modernity, I hereby present to you a Roman copy of Sosus of Pergamon's renowned masterpiece, ἀσάρωτος οἶκος "Unswept House:"

It is, quite literally, garbage.

Sometimes I wonder if the reason we have so little of interest recorded between, say, 200 BC and AD 100 is because it corresponds to our civilization after AD 1900 or so: as much was made as ever, but all of it was trash.