any artist that proclaims praise for them; they want to be able to say "we are the pones that can create culture, not our enemies!" Of course, this was a pattern long before America, as Hitler and Stalin were both failed artists, who took it out on successful ones. They also cultivated pet artists whose mission was to remake their art in the image of their leaders: Stalin had Maxim Gorky, a novelist that would help punish other novelists, and Hitler had Carl Orff, who would rewrite new versions of music that would replace Mendelssohn, a great composer, and a Jew.
What is worse is that Americans tend to interpret funding as a sign of virtue, which is why the authoritarians try very hard to be the only source of funding for art. Go ahead and watch a film called "the art of the steal" a film about a 20 billion dollar art collection where the wealthy went to disgusting lengths to determine ownership Note the (after of course taking it way from an Afro-American college.) Note Alice Walton's museum in Arkansas. Yes, the idea of showing art to an area that doe snot have it is noble, but she targeted art that was held by public institutions, making sure everyone that wanted to see "Rosie the Riveter" had to of course thank the rich old lady that killed someone while driving drunk:
https://mic.com/articles/79039/the-untold-story-of-alice-walton-s-dwi-incident#.molzTaGMf
Walton is notable for another reason: whatever her good intention may have been to bring art to her area, the whole mess became a very nasty mess that became propaganda for the authoritarians of all stripes. Of course, the Dixie folks made it a point to tweak those
Yankee elites, and that fed into the endless hymns to those good old humble southerners who were going to take over the country, including the culture. To be fair, the Yankee elites did not make anything resembling a good showing, as they threw in hayseed insults, and also were all too happy to let those public institutions get robbed, the same ones that they spent the rest of the year cutting funds from because they were offended that some artwork offended them.
https://alcalde.texasexes.org/2013/03/art-for-the-people/
The tragedy is, that art becomes the horse to pull golden carriages, while it should be our vehicle to new, better ways of thinking. That is why I would have a totally free internet, because it alone may be the way we get to see art. It is also why, to be fair, I laughed at artists crying poverty over napster; If you were really concerned about the poor artist trying to make it, make labels, it is what hip hop did. Now, the Metallicas were just happy that they got THEIR slice of the authoritarians gold, anf could then sing the one tune every authoritarian wants the lower class to sing "I'm allright jack, keep your hands of my stack."
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