Absolutely. The commercialization of all that moves, of the whole cultural realm.

Something seems odd and out of place. Though.

Pincer psyops by the right?

(The SMAUG reference is a classic Hobbit visual).

Worse yet, there is much evidence that slowly they are trying to kill off the greatest aspects of art, and Art Spirit, to reify it simply for auctions, since Nazis hate the refinement of discernment such gifts and cultures bring. The skills to tell scheiße from Shinola, or if that’s too dated an image, counterfeits from the real deal.

Age old Philistinism,gone nuclear in a nuclear age. Homogenization of the arts and music industry. All hat and no cowboy?!

Rich, Adrienne, famously refused the Medal of Arts offered her by Clinton, writing the White House scathingly, “Art means nothing if it simply serves to decorate the dinner table of the power that holds it hostage.”

Prophetic too, as philanthropists are tasking all the arts institutions they hold hostage now more and more to ramp up the murder of the Art Spirit in the USA. Classical music has been savaged for several decades now, clearly, under the guise of philanthropy. All the philistine phat cats want to do is commodify it. To commoditize artists. To “own” it, like the great worm SMAUG with his mountain lair of golden baubles.

Not sure if discussing origins of the “virus” is not useful, but it diverts energy perhaps from the bigger problems of rights, probably.

That’s interesting, I didn’t know. Shortly after court rulings gave corporations received recognition as “persons” under the law, too.

I smell a lot of then-contemporary rats. Many corporate. Just as many, fascist (literally).