I couldn’t agree more! 1999 seems like when the arts peaked and plateaued a bit till say 2007 and it was a steady decline ever since. A lot definitely has to do with censorship, as well as more propaganda being pumped out that masquerades as art.
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Yes, also projects financed by new liquidity from quantitative easing controlled by the banking network. This creates unfair incentives to match what institutions allow. Let's call it shadow censorship.
Central banking is enabling the marxist dystopia, which has accelerated since 2008. All the signs are visible in modern arts 😮💨, almost everything new is soulless.
Soulless and is optimised to “make money” not to connect with the audience