“If we’re willingly letting corporations create culture, or determine culture, for their own financial gain, that’s unequivocally bad,” Cheek told me. “And what makes it so much worse is that it’s couched in all of this language of individualism that people buy into and believe. It’s an era where we can’t agree on basic facts of history in general, and then we’re giving corporations the power to create their own versions of culture, and therefore their own versions of history. And then they make a lot of money off of it, while the people who are actually creating the work and the art that make
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