BITCOIN PROPAGANDA ART

"The Creation and Destruction of Global Money Systems" by Lucho Poletti

It's in this climate that it is now both edgy and eye-raisingly self-aware to brand art as propaganda. In this relatively post-truth world that we live in, everything can feel like propaganda. Poletti is playing with this. And if everyone is biased, potentially, the most honest thing someone can do is be upfront about how their agenda creates a bias.

"On the outside, people who aren't interested in Bitcoin won't get it," Poletti told Bitcoin Magazine. "It's glorifying Bitcoin and putting down paper money."

In college, Poletti studied finance, eventually earning his master's degree. After subsequent years of toil as a financial engineer and analyst, he fell down the Bitcoin rabbit hole in 2013. Despite it not being his life passion, Poletti's background in finance drove him to learn everything he could about how this new, alternative money system actually worked.

Simultaneously, Poletti was still focusing on art, creating pieces that told truth about large-scale societal problems such as how big brands, mainstream media and institutional banks in the financial system manipulate public opinion. Though he felt this work conveyed the thorny truth, he was also aware that it was incomplete because it did not provide an answer other than that the world was brainwashed. By first learning about it, then believing in it, Bitcoin provided that answer.

He lumps his current work into one of two buckets: art for the "masses" that teaches people about the problems with central banking and the benefits of Bitcoin (such as "Dr. Satoshi's Orange Pill," which has been translated into 10 different languages) and art for Bitcoiners who have already "drank the Kool-Aid" and enjoy it as a symbolic testament to the more optimistic and free future they see coming over the horizon.

To read the complete article, see:
How Propaganda Art Can Spread The Message Of Bitcoin (https://bitcoinmagazine.com/articles/how-propaganda-art-can-spread-the-message-of-bitcoin)

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