It’s the mixture of resentment from material disadvantage and sense of entitlement from cultural dominance. It’s a side effect of how the Bohemian and associat

It’s the mixture of resentment from material disadvantage and sense of entitlement from cultural dominance. It’s a side effect of how the Bohemian and associated cultural movements have dominated the west for the last century or so. They claim to still be the counter culture, but really they are the cultural elite and have been for a long time. Of course it gets lost on people that you need to actually be a great artist and not just a deadbeat with a spray can. You feel you know better than everyone else what good urban aesthetics are supposed to look like, but you lack the means to create anything other than nonsensical scribbles on the walls. That’s also why we see it in the west and not so much in Japan as another user pointed out.