@jayrosen_nyu Dwight MacDonald pointed this out ... 70 years ago, in his "Theory of Mass Culture":

The upper classes, who begin by using it to make money from the crude tastes of the masses and to dominate them politically, end by finding their own culture attacked and even threatened with destruction by the instrument they have thoughtlessly employed. (The same irony may be observed in modern politics, where most swords seem to have two edges; thus Nazism began as a tool of the big bourgeoisie and the army Junkers but ended by using them as its tools.)

https://is.muni.cz/el/1421/jaro2008/ESB032/um/5136660/MacDonald_-_A_Theory_of_Mass_Culture.pdf

It's the old problem of grabbing the tiger by the tail.

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When the sacred becomes NFT:
https://newsupdate.uk/crypto-amulets-buddhist-digital-amulets-mark-thai-entry-into-nft-art-craze/amp/
Go see the Buddhist monk blink, smile on a cryptoamulet 😁:
https://cryptoamulets.io/

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