Frances Stonor Saunders - The CIA and the World of Arts Chapter 2 Destiny’s Elect

Описание: Frances Stonor Saunders’s book—published in English as The Cultural Cold War: The CIA and the World of Arts and Letters (US) and Who Paid the Piper? (UK)—is a landmark investigation of the Cold War’s hidden cultural front. Saunders uncovers the carefully concealed programs through which the CIA, in the postwar decades, quietly funded and steered cultural life—across literature and philosophy, music and theater, film and the visual arts, education and publishing.
By elevating some movements and marginalizing others, the Agency helped set the aesthetic agenda, shaping not only Western artistic development but the outlook of entire generations. The book argues that culture is never “just culture”: it is a powerful instrument for forming habits of mind, behavior, and identity. Influence over art becomes influence over public consciousness—individual and collective.
Small wonder, then, that public behavior and mass psychology have drifted toward more polarized, aggressive, and often destructive patterns—undermining the basic norms of social trust, civic discourse, and human coexistence.
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