Andrew McCluskey

The lack of specialized knowledge amongst the mainstream audience encourages cultural producers to create and distribute cultural works with minimum changes to pre-existing artistic conventions. The industry perceives mainstream individuals as conservative: They “like what they like” and prefer not to be confronted with radical change.

even though I can’t personally relate one bit I heard everything he said.

If we want to serve capitalism, we rush to evaluate things as product and weigh its value to a consumer as a purchase. If we want to understand our connection to the work and let the art serve us, that takes time.