The CIA Promoted Abstract Modern Art As a Psyop

Interesting video. The CIA promoted abstract expressionists like Mark Rothko and Jackson Pollack as some kind of bulwark against the propaganda value of Soviet art, which itself was realistic and representational. (Though idealized in showing proud, strong, happy Soviet peasants harvesting the abundant fields.)

So using taxpayer money, they pushed this crap. "Our" art would be simple geometric shapes and paint splatters.

It was literal Gay Ops.

But that's not the most egregious CIA Gay Op. They also funded and promoted leftwing magazines, including one founded by Bill Kristol's father, Irving Kristol. The point of this was to give leftwing intellectuals a leftwing ideology to believe in that wasn't actual communism.

But what they did was fund magazines that relentlessly attacked the right and pushed socialism.

Fifty years later, this op came to its ultimate fruition as a majority of the younger generations, for the first time in American history, now support socialism.

And many support communism.

Bang-up job, guys. Give yourselves all a promotion.

Just as an FYI: Irving Kristol eventually turned away from leftist more or less completely and founded the anti-communist "neoconservative" movement.

His son then turned all the way back to leftism.

posted by Ace at 04:50 PM

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