For 20 years, the CIA funded and promoted Abstract Expressionism as propaganda

[Miramon]

Haha! I knew there was an explanation for it. I’ve always called this movement abject depressionism.

[Martin_Guerre]

@Linoleum

Seriously? You would be wrong. The DoD doesn’t even fund that many projects, and even fewer have any kind of commercial appeal.

U mad, Gilman Louie fast-tracked into Langley, you think he threw out his rolodex when they cleared him?

[Lizard_King]

@Martin Guerre

U mad

Is this a verbal tic that somehow translates into text?

[Linoleum]

@Martin Guerre

U mad, Gilman Louie fast-tracked into Langley, you think he threw out his rolodex when they cleared him?

Which, of course, explains why of the dozens of companies in In-Q-Tel’s portfolio there has been a whopping one company with a connection to the game industry.

[Flowers]

@John Many Jars

It’s at least partly a testament to the old Ivy League WASPy tweedy pipe-smoking CIA, who had the financial and cultural connections to do something like this. The CIA of today is probably backing reality shows or something.

Why, to make everyone used to the idea of being constantly recorded? That’s crazy! I can’t wait until we find out that the CIA steered rap towards crass commercialism in an effort to make third world nations more money oriented. Or that the Summer blockbuster was invented to give Americans something to consistently share an opinion regarding. What if multiple piercings were a plot to undermine sympathy for people stopped at metal detectors?

No, John is right, if it wasn’t the CIA’s idea to convince everyone around the entire globe to fill their homes and pockets with recording devices vulnerable to remote control, then they basically stumbled drunk into a supermodel’s vagina ten years ago.

[John_Many_Jars]

Damn right I’m right.

[TimJames]

@Bahimiron

The New World Order is behind the consolization of games because they don’t want the next generation knowing enough about computers to be the kinds of cyberjockeys and technowarriors necessary able to fight the brainwashing effects of the one world government’s stranglehold over all human culture.

It’s difficult to direct the people when they can spring to action from desk chairs. They are much easier to control when they lounge on comfy couches.

[Enidigm]

@Lizard_King

*and Bulgakov was an example chosen for Stalin’s unusual affinity for his work, as opposed any number of artists that merely survived the system.

I have The Master and Margarita, but i haven’t read it yet. You liked?

[Lizard_King]

@Enidigm

I have The Master and Margarita, but i haven’t read it yet. You liked?

It’s probably in my top five books of all time, which admittedly is a list dominated by Russians.

[HumanTon]

I am shocked, shocked I tell you, to discover that rich people like Nelson Rockefeller patronized art that furthers their own values and political ends.

Why, the next thing you’ll be telling me Michelangelo was a propagandist as well!

[Bill_Dungsroman]

@PapaSmurf

So we have the CIA to blame for modern art. I knew something that ugly and insipid couldn’t be popular and expensive without some sort of scam going on.

At least they didn’t repeat the Bay of Pigs.

Well OK you guys win! Also I am officially a part of the tinfoil hat brigade, because if this is true, things like “assassinating a president” seem pretty plausible!

[Anders_Hallin]

Next up: CIA funded and promoted wine snobbery, so as to make Russians think they were missing something.

[Enidigm]

@Bill Dungsroman

Well OK you guys win! Also I am officially a part of the tinfoil hat brigade, because if this is true, things like “assassinating a president” seem pretty plausible!

How about infecting Guatemalans with STDs in the 40s?

[Enidigm]

@HumanTon

I am shocked, shocked I tell you, to discover that rich people like Nelson Rockefeller patronized art that furthers their own values and political ends.

Why, the next thing you’ll be telling me Michelangelo was a propagandist as well!

Propagandist for what? That turtle soup is bad? -_-