We've fallen into decadence, and with it has come the desire to freeze society as it existed somewhere around 1965, when baby boomers turned 20. I've had conver

We've fallen into decadence, and with it has come the desire to freeze society as it existed somewhere around 1965, when baby boomers turned 20. I've had conversations with people asking how new Marvel movies could be made if some political or legal change happened. Who cares? Don't care if no one ever writes a novel again, there's plenty to read. It'll never happen, though, because people will write novels for free, and people will sponsor people who create things that they want or that they want to be seen sponsoring. Don't care if there's never another piece of recorded music, and we're stuck playing music with each other or being in the same room with people playing music for us. Of course, this will never happen, because the vast majority of music is made for free, and the rest nearly for free after the record companies recoup. The state doesn't need to keep encouraging the production of art through police action. If the state wants to encourage art, give everybody a tax credit that they have to send to an artist.