@themoviemagick: Plato controversially believed that commercializing art would have disastrous consequences for society. He believed that if artists had to rely on selling their art in order to make money then they would be enticed to pander to specific audiences or the masses, and they would reject pursuing truth and beauty, in order to pander to base human instincts of division and temptation in order to increase their profits and sales. Reducing art from something that can elevate society and uplift humanity to something that leads us further astray from truth. But the pushback is that if artists need to rely on funding, they will be more susceptible to pushing propaganda for those funding their art. But what are your thoughts on this? #plato #philosophy