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Art and politics
Recently I've been listening to a book by Terry Pratchett titled 'Moving Pictures', I won't go into much detail about the book, you should read it yourself. However while listening to it, a thought occurred to me because of one of the developments in the book. Any form of art seems to take a very similar pathway, it doesn't matter what medium it is ether, everything from writing to painting, theater to video games. It starts out genuine, as art should always be, pure and simple genuine expression of the artist. But after some time, things change. Typically first its the advertisement, it starts out innocently enough, the artist needs money, needs to make ends meat. A little ad in their content here or there couldn't hurt things... right? But eventually the art form becomes a thriving market for advertisement, you have complete "works of art" that are literally just an ad for something.
So now the art form has become an platform for advertisers, and its very successful, it reaches and convinces a lot of people to go and do business with the places advertised. Its so useful, its so ...influential. It attracts people who want to influence others, not just to buy their products but to sway peoples way of thinking. They start adopting it to push their various agendas. Soon that original, pure, genuine expression dies out under the shear weight of the corrupted, dishonest, blatant manipulation. You no longer find the "good old" version of that art form. Its all just the new political and advertisement bloated mess.
The art form has gone from being art, to being politics. A "slippery slope" argument and fallacy I know, but observations seem to indicate the truth behind it.