Tony Walker
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15,273 appearances
26 recordings
1 series
first heard Apr 2026
last heard 2d ago
Tony Walker’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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We see this, this is what our collector is.
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He has all of this stuff, not because he's going to use these swords, not because you know, and there is an absurdity in this of what he wants to use them on his foot for, but it's this idea of people of taste select objects of taste, and to me, this is.
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Is merely Homo sapiens um
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status signalling.
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It's to say I am
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superior type.
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Uh, you know, we can do it by having a Lamborghini, or we can do it by having a um and this is why art costs so much.
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Uh John Berger talks a lot about this about art in Western culture becomes is merely a uh this this kind of thing.
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It's a possession, it's an accoutrement.
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Now the defenders of this view would say oh no no no it shows us what that we are fine folk and apart
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From you, Rif Raf, and we're different, we're just more refined.
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You think of um, you know, Oscar Wilde, he's he's of that ilk, you know.
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Um he may not have not had any money, but he had taste.
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So then you so that allows you to have most of this kind of art is owned by people who who display it as
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something that perhaps other people wouldn't.
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It's it's like um it is.
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So for the uh jo this is John Berger really.
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But what he says for the for the European and and American um upper middle class to o earn these objec own these objects is
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it signifies their status as being a cut above, you know?
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It's a status differential signifier.
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