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I am very much into art, I assume more than the median engineer, and several of my friends are actual artists.

Neither CIA psyops, nor profitability of the Swedish music industry, nor defense companies have anything to do with this article, or with art.

Otherwise thanks for mostly agreeing with my only point, I guess.

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> It's just an art project, a means for public servants to redistribute excess public cash to their artsy friends instead of improving the common good.

Improving the common good is one of the direct effects of publicly funded art, As the swedish example shows. The cia psyops are more of a nod to how powerful it can be in ways that can’t be measured via GDP. Not always for good, but impactful either way.

You may not like this piece, but just like in tech startups, you have to fund some failures to find the good.

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