One can see what the establishment elites want to achieve in society by its art. The establishment prop up artists who toe the establishment line by promoting them in the media, organising exhibitions for their work and creating an artificially lucrative market in which artworks become both an ideological and financial currency and an investment that make both artist and investors very rich. By buying into the art, one buys into the ideology behind the art and vice versa so that ideas are disseminated in ever wider circles as more of the bourgeoisie become invested in the culture, who then disseminate the ideology further in the culture on which they impact, so that lower and cheaper levels of culture become infected by the ideology imposed from above. One artist in whom the establishment elites are heavily invested is Marc Quinn, who you may remember created the sculpture of thalidamide victim Alison Lapper that stood in Trafalgar Square commissioned by communist Mayor of London 'Red' Ken Livingstone in opposition to the statue of the great british hero Lord Nelson. For the past ten years, Quinn has been promoting the cult of transgenderism in his art, as well as pornography, starting with the statue of a pregnant Thomas Beattie (below), which he unveiled in 2010.
