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Walter Benjamin, nearly a century ago now, established a fundamental argument that most cultural critics of today have forgotten or simply gloss over: fascism twists art into a simple aesthetic rather than understanding art as a means to express change in the material conditions of the culture and its people. By relegating more and more to the machine, the machine gives us a false sense of expression without ever actually affecting our own material conditions. We are in the era of mass creation of the simulacra that Jean Baudrillard warned about.