Indeed, theatre was primarily used for religious gatherings in Greece, until it degenerated into an entertainment venue. Much of modern religious and government operations have the echoes of the pageantry and mythology from an earlier era. Art was the information medium through which the organizational institutions, be it religious or secular, adjusted public perceptions pertaining to the world. One could argue that rituals of institutional religions are the templates, upon which all mass psychologic control is based; such control mechanisms represent the pinnacle of human mental manipulation, of governing principle from a more elegant era.

The modern day media are reduced to vulgar entertainment venues that make the Roman gladiatorial combat appear the height of human sophistication and erudition. Modern art serves no purpose other than as a hedge against inflation, much like precious metals_, that can be to sold off to some other pretentious buffoon, who imagines the bauble will always appreciate in monetary value. Representative governments are reduced to using crude physical mechanisms of control, rather than subtle manipulation of the mind. It is truly preferable to be enslaved by our forebears than to live free in the modern cultural dessert built on "yeast-less factuality," that are barely held together in ever-increasing legal shackles, whose only concern is acquisition of money.