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[–] canbot 2 points 17 points (+19|-2) ago  (edited ago)

In other words it wasn't a weapon at all but propoganda. Modern art was the new thing in America and the CIA promoted it. A lot of people said it wasn't art at all, and Americans were uncultured; so the CIA ran a P.R. campaign.

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[–] toobaditworks 0 points 3 points (+3|-0) ago 

This has been known for a long time. The way you put it is how the article seems to swing it but its been said this was actually to demoralize hard working people and attract other lazy people to not work hard. To show you can be rich and famous by being lazy. It makes for an easy take-over. If you read up on the CIA they aren't just an intelligence agency. They actually takeover countries and they use propaganda like this to do so.