Let’s start our review of just how dumb our population, society and culture have become since The Great Stupid spread its dark wings over the land with the book covers above. The book, current on sale and display at Barnes and Noble among other stores, is called “Mona’s Eyes,” referring to the “Mona Lisa,” perhaps the best known and most famous painting of all, by Leonardo Da Vinci. But the publisher allowed the eyes being used on the cover jacket to be those of a completely different woman in a different painting by another famous painter. Those eyes belong to “The Girl With A Pearl Earring, by Vermeer.
Morons.
There is a silver lining here, however. In mocking that cover, “Instapundit’s” Ed Driscoll quoted a minor Ethics Alarms post from 2023 on a book about Pearl Harbor with a cover graphic showing German planes attacking our navy on December 7, 1941. I clicked on the link and was amazed to find myself reading my own post, which I had completely forgotten about. In the resulting phenomenon known as an Insta-lanch (this is EA’s third), that post got over 3,600 views (and counting) after only being read about 500 times in three years.
Meanwhile:
Ethics Alarms 
I’m not sure the cover of the book, “Mona’s Eyes” is a mistake or oversight.
“Mona’s Eyes by Thomas Schlesser is about a 10-year-old girl, Mona, who experiences a mysterious, temporary blindness, prompting her art-loving grandfather, Henry, to take her on a year-long journey through Paris museums to study 52 masterpieces of Western art, teaching her about life, beauty, and the power of art to transcend physical sight before she potentially loses her vision forever, exploring themes of love, loss, and art history.”
Plus, “Johannes Vermeer’s Girl with a Pearl Earring (c. 1665) is an iconic Dutch Golden Age oil painting, renowned as the “Dutch Mona Lisa” for the subject’s enigmatic gaze and intimate, mysterious allure”