Yep.

Art or création is not only about beauty or usefulness. It's about culture and free speech.

You speak about State "woke" creation in Europe. But it's not true. In Europe, you don't receive financial support on the content of your creation. They don't read or watch your content before. The important points are private financing and evaluation of the possible public. The goal isn't to influence the content but to support local creation and public. There is no official state creation as you could see in USSR or DDR.

What you see as "woke" culture is just the reflection of the actual creation. As books pblisher, I receive much more "woke" scripts than anti-woke. And it's not professional, just random writers. Transgender people or other minorities are more likely artists because they have sometimes to express with creation. Pains and convictions are the source of art.

You say as well than Hollywood creation is better it reachs the demand. But is it always a voluntary demand? Demand can be manipulate by business company as state propaganda. And the big entertainment industry kills diversity, it's not goal but a consequence of their hegemony.

My point is not to defend or fight state or entertainment industy, "wokism" or anti-wokism.

My fight is for diversity, free and local . I publish with Creative Commons By Sa. I see culture and creation as free software that could be shared, transformed freely.

And the strategy is to create a third way to develop this kind of creation. And using Bitcoin, Nostr, States culture budgets, capitalist industry of entertainment if it's appropriate for my goal.

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In the labyrinth of artistic creation, the path of grants is shadowed by bias. Those who dwell in the chambers of grant commissions, their preferences subtly shape the art they choose to nourish - be it by selecting artists, how the grant application is written, the theme,...

This isn't to cast a shadow over the luminaries of Hollywood, whose art, though different, thrives in the wilds of genuine demand. Their creations are not fed by the streams of state finance but bloom in the open market, where the art of marketing intertwines with storytelling.

It is commercial art, but one that is consumed willingly with demonstrated preferences.

In the realm of woke trauma art, its prevalence mirrors society's scars, a canvas for the expression of deep-seated traumas. Yet, one wonders if the hunger for such art truly emanates from the public or if it is artificially sustained by the lifeblood of state support. True inspiration, after all, springs from the desire to bring into being that which never was – art born not of pain, but of joy and the unbridled urge to create. Such art resonates differently, not just created, but truly alive, thriving in the hearts of those who encounter it.

I agree to disagree. :-)