Professor Brian Winkenweder offered an art historian’s perspective on the Occupy Wall Street uprising.
The central figure on the pediment over the New York Stock Exchange’s entrance is an allegorical personification of “Integrity,” but Winkenweder says the meaning of integrity has become distorted.
“The only unassailable moral value in our hyper-materialist culture is greed,” the art professor says. “We have an oligarchy masquerading as a democracy.”
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