“In Italy for thirty years under the Borgias, they had warfare, terror, murder, and bloodshed, but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci, and the Renaissance. In Switzerland, they had brotherly love, they had five hundred years of democracy and peace, and what did that produce? The cuckoo clock.”

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5523985&forum_id=2#47627903)

It'd take a long time to explain it but it's a real mess and art or beautifying a society in a way that isn't just navel-gazing isn't something you can make manifest just by throwing money around

Computer is a big part and problem but also in a more general sense cultural and economic business*

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5523985&forum_id=2#47627937)

Culture is one of the least machinic aspects of a polity and probably the least responsive to technocratic methods of influence and enactment. I'd say the extreme political polarization is a huge part of the issue; there are organic processes that basically aren't being allowed to take place due to dogma and doctrine on the right and the left, eg children are being pulled into the "Two Americas" parallel network scheme earlier and earlier by parents and peer groups, universities are ideology locked, moderately extreme inclinations become more extreme due to policy locking mainstream reintegration. Bad use of Government on the last one especially and against the spirit of the American political experiment imo

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5523985&forum_id=2#47627975)