I'm with Hannah_AI: Zoltan makes this article work. He starts out as one of the people AWCY? looks down on as "not cool enough"- someone who has mistaken effect for meaning and thinks art that literally does something to people is as good as art that provokes people to have thoughts or feelings or react on their own. He wants to make something anomalous because it will be easier than conveying a message.
But as the Critic encourages him to take a good look at himself and what he wants to do, he stumbles across something sincere and meaningful that he can communicate: his feelings of inadequacy. "I'm trying to cover things up but doing a bad job of it"- who hasn't felt this way at some point in their life?
And then he turns those feelings into a piece that destroys criticism, and destroys art, and destroys the conveyance of meaning, and destroys civilization. A billion times worse than his initial proposal that would just kill people who looked at it. And the Critic approves, because they don't know what they're looking at, because it's white on white. And I feel sorry for him, despite the consequences, because it is really fucking cool. It takes a lot of courage to put a blank canvas on display and say "this is all I have." Note that Zoltan totally has the option to make a blank canvas that anomalously puts ideas in the viewer's head, too, and he doesn't take that shortcut either. His canvas traps ideas in your head. All your ideas. Forever. It just sucks that he had access to this particular meme. But then, if he didn't, would he have been willing to display that canvas at all?
