Art? You Want Art!?

[mnaz]

Art? You want art?
No, you get barking heads.
Scrolling tickers onscreen
(unless stocks fall too far).
You get pundit pretzel logic.
Polluted populist politicalism.
The Other Tribe is wrong,
they're always wrong.

You want art? No!
You'll get numbers.
On the Game Board
you are a number.
You're a statistic.
A consumer unit.
A database.
A conscript.
A target.

Has it always
been this way?

[saw]

Im afraid so

[mnaz]

Thru the centuries