Look, all I'll say is that if I were in charge of the intelligence community, I would be very concerned about directing the nation's mental climate in a benign direction ('benign' as defined by me) and defending it from malign mental influences from elsewhere ('malign' as defined by me).

And if I were looking around and thinking, "Hmm, how shall I do that?" 🤔 I would quicky—like Plato—identify art as the most obvious means of influencing the public. And then I would look for the biggest and most prominent and uniquely American form of art, which happens to be... 🎥 🍿 So really it would seem almost negligent not to do predictive programming, it's such an obvious part of the global info war.

But hey, what do I know?