Why does the CIA have a private art collection? 

I remember being at an art gallery when someone approached me and said, how do you feel about these. I said something like. 'well its interesting that youre supposed to derive meaning from the color stories, just colors being next to one another", so he said back, "And what is the meaning you derive from it?" and i literally could not answer him, lol.

Love it. The relation this collection of paintings has to government attempts to control our every day thoughts and actions sounds like a Dale Gribble fever dream made real.

Its not about controlling ideas, but nudging the marketplace of ideas in the desired direction. Thinking about it gives me the chills to be honest. I love this video.

“What we propose to do is not to control content, but to create context.” - Rosemary, _Metal Gear Solid 2_

I really love that Chomsky quote! There's a good argument to be made that it fits the exact philosophy of Twitter, in which there is a lot of debate but none of it seeming to really go anywhere as it's inherently limited by the system and the structure of the website.

The Washington Color School sounds like the kind of thing that the SCP Foundation would create in order to contain, like, some sort of seriously mundane but still anomalous AWCY? project. Someone could probably write a whole skip for that.

I don't know if I disagree with Chomsky's quote at the end here, but Kraut's video about him definitely dumpstered my opinion about him in general. I digress. The algorithm tossed me one of your videos last week, and I've been hooked since the first. I look forward to more from you! But in the meantime, back to the steady crawl from oldest to newest...

Excellent! Would like to see more visuals, even your face. The sounds quality is really good and content kept me listening the entire way through. I think you could go far with this.

Apparantly something similar have happend in Norway where the state sponsors non figurative abstract art and figurative art has become less profitable.

This video remind me of the story of the famous fountain , a ready-made by marcel Duchamps . Duchamps join the society of independent artist ,who was created to exhibit avant-garde art freely , to give view to avant-garde art when they where mocked by a lot of media . In 1917 ,Duchamps wanted to test that devotion , so he created a trap (and question the definition of art at the same time , it was clever ) He chose the fountain , who was nonetheless than a inverted urinal with a nickname "R. Mutt" on it. (it is a ready-made ) . He try to put the fountain on the list for the next exhibition but was refuse because the vast majority of the menbers didn't think it was fitting. The thing is , if the fountain was refuse , the society didn't promote free view to avant-garde art , but if they accept it , the public and press will mock them Duchamp could easely participate to the debate , because a very few menbers know he was R.Mutt . Fountain was refuse but he already went that far to invite one of his allegedly rich friend who wanted to see the famous fountain, and possibly buy it. (at least his friend wanted to pretended to buy it ) The society where shocked and embarassed . they couldn't hide the fact that they where refusing something , and also in that particular case , the supposed rich wanted to buy it , so they could gain money. But more importantly , this was a question for if fountain was a piece of art or not. And by that exemple , a general question for what is art . Some say it was immoral (the society was based in the US , and puritanism was higher than today for sure ) but he responded that you can buy a urinal in a store , and it not immoral at all to do so . Some other say that it was plagiarism , because he don't make the object himself. His response was that the important part was that R.Mutt chose this piece in particular , not that he made it by itself. By this act , the artist change the view of the object , transform his use value. Fountain is not longer an urinal , but a work of art. Finally , Duchamps later say that a piece of art is also made by the admiration of other show to it. the public is the last part of the creative procces . It may sound stupid , but it made me realise at that time i learn about fountain that it is very difficult to define "art". The idea behind the fountain is more important than the fountain itself , and Duchamps was aware of it .

Don’t forget about the music department. Laurel canyon is but one example of government agencies putting out their own “art”

*"abstraction given order"* is a wonderful line. kinda speaks to the CIAs role in the cultural cold war more broadly. great video. you made Serge Guilbaut and Francis Saunders proud

Hey Gene Davis was a huge inspiration for my visual art, so are they still buying? houses cost too much

very gud 👍

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please google what "begs the question" actually means

8:32 I golfed with Kim Jung IL and it is totally not a lie that he is the greatest golfer in the world. He hit 18 hole in ones in a row that day. I couldnt believe it but it happened.

An affair? JFK....oh...well...adds changes motivations, doesn't it? Sort of a reverse bathsheba moment, ain't it?

I wonder if US Intelligence is behind the the push to popularize NFTs. As utterly ridiculous as they seem, it makes sense when you compare them to valuable works of art. In many ways they are superior....at least for what the CIA would use them for. Through blockchain technology their authenticity is unmistakable, they are much more easy to transport ( you just send them via the internet) they dont deteriorate over time, they would make a great sort of pseudo digital currency. You wouldnt even have to co-opt artists into producing them, you could just get celebrities to do it....and you already control them through blackmail and what not. And of course you can always embed secret info in them.

That is the most capitalistic way of doing propaganda, genius

Washington Color School makes me feel uncomfortable. Like watching a period place about the South, or the existence of Song of the South. It sounds a lot more like something brought up in Brown v Board of Education than art

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They look like what Aliens think human Art should be

hunter bidens art is a great investment

This is why people don't like "art".

Is there a purposeful reason why such an interesting subject is being presented in such a dull and boring manner?

Guy is literally trying to get his head around ideas of containment mechanisms and controled opposition, while also thinking that CIA is right-wing. Maybe, perhaps, one day you may also become dissident.