The artists have always understood exactly what is going on, and have always been the first to sound the alarm. They may not be able to analyze it rationally, or articulate it effectively, but they have an instinct for the truth which transcends scholarship or analysis, and their own way of communicating it.

Perhaps this is why the reactionaries have always persecuted the artists, as they now do the scientists. And perhaps that is the real reason that access to education is becoming so economically restricted, precisely at a time when training and skills have become so essential to the economy.

After WWII, the GI Bill and cheap public colleges brought education to the working class. That is a mistake they seem determined not to repeat.