The Origin of Mediocracy A mediocracy is a political [also social and family; every where a power can be acted] regime. And it means: the domination is taken and kept by mediocre people. Generally, it is extremely rare that political power is taken and kept by intelligent human beings. Why? Because no intelligent people are living in fear andor frustration and doesn't wish to command others to obey to any order. It is as simple as that. To consolidate any mediocracy, it is needed the approval of a large group of obedient human beings. Without obedience it is impossible to built a political state of general obedience; in other words: a dictatorship. All political regime aim to its perfection: the totalitarian dictatorship. Politics exists for human kind to be governed (governing people too) and to not disobey. Hierarchy is only needed to shape a loop with an indestructible chain of obediences. More the order to obey is stupid, more the regime is totalitarian. And for stupid orders, the one who governs must be scared, stupid and frustrated. Frustration grows anger and revenge which are necessary to take any power to harm others. Stupidity and fear provoke catastrophes. Politics have no other goal. Any political regime serves the wish to live irresponsible. The fundamental root of mediocracy is irresponsibility. What about art and music in mediocratic regime? Art and music produce differences [1]. Any art or music work is noticed because of its uniqueness. So, how competition could and has penetrated [2] the artist's mind and world, knowing that competition concerns only similarities = copies, not differences [3]? Art and music exist only to create differences = unknown unique original works, otherwise their reason to exist disappears. Then, art and music are replaced by craft. Politicians accused avant-garde artists being responsible to have put the idea of living free in the new generation's thought. And a political conspiracy was fomented after 1968 to erase the freedom of the youth of the next generations. The political and economical counter-attack, never mentioned by any media, was called differently: by François Chesnais: “Conservative Revolution”, by Daniel Bell: “The Big Restoration”. After a half century of cultural war against [true] artists, today, starting in 2021, the fundamental reason and the public sense of art and music creation in our societies has disappeared: we are living in a world of copies. A world of copies testifies a mediocracy. Since the 90s, craft had progressively replaced art and music in concert halls and museums, and everywhere else. The aggressive business (using only blackmail to deal) ideology started to behave in art and music at the end of the 70s of the 20th century. In the 80s everybody was submerged and trapped inside the economic lack of money idea. The commercial offensive in the 80s was to rot the image of art by excessive speculation on insignificant objects (which already was not art works). Most of people and artist and musicians was and still are possessed by this competition producing similarities = copies: “to get the job” (sic) which is an act of submission. Notice that singers (in business song competition) sound all the same [4]. It is not a fashion or a general tendency: it is only the will to compete, and that makes sound differences being similar. Being original and unique (in art and music production) is not the criterion to be “selected” by customers to be sold. The fake artist has to sold his/her product (= personal will) by accumulating millions of “likes” (sic) for millions of dollars. Using art or music for money? But why living to be sold? When a human is being sold, it means s/he is a slave. And agree to live dominated, humiliated, obedient, irresponsible in slavery. Deny it, does not free anything, or only perhaps the illusion. Most of real artists (not sold, neither blackmailed) are living outside of this aggressive blackmailed system (“out of the grid”); if not, they couldn't create any art and music. And what it is shown to people to be sold on the global market is not (any more) art and music. [5] The known economical “business law's proportion” for any product to be sold: it has to be at maximum: 80% of similarities (= usual) and 20% of differences (= “new” sic); in fact closer to 90/10%. Or any claimed new product, is only claimed. The law for a product to be sold to customers cannot be 100% original and unique, i.e.: it cannot be (a real work of) art and music. 100% of unknown, cannot be sold [to rule the world of industrial copies]. For that: WHAT MUSIC IS TODAY? MUSIC ARE REMIXED VINTAGE SONGS (from before the 80s = before the contamination epidemic and “free of copyright”, sic). And classical music before the 20th century. And classical jazz before the Free Jazz starting in the 60s. It is known that the global aggressive business, motivated only by the fear of lack, destroys the sense of art and music (replaced by fake art = illusory pictures, and fake music = big impressive sound). To destroy the sense of living free. Business market forces to produce copies to be sold. More copies sold implies more profit. A unique original model is unsaleable to masses (as many individuals must have a copy). This the goal of the industry. Enrichment can only be achieved with obedient masses of the poor people. Business forces to produce similarities to be able to compete. Forcing to avoid differences erases originality or uniqueness to become a standard public appreciation = morally approved: unoriginal shapes dictatorship. Originality or uniqueness cannot compete to be sold. It is free. Marketing business acts only with blackmail: the unique way to force the profit to happen; act that harms people: everybody [even the convinced winner]. We know that this business globalization put people in danger: generalizing trapped human in slavery: depths, physical and mental injuries, handicaps, weakness [fait blesse] culture, early deaths, unknown constant pains and suffering, and put 90% of human beings in lack of basic necessities: knowledge, ability to resolve problems, clean water, healthy food, safe home and transportation, etc. This is how human world works by attacking art and music since 50 years: from the end of the 70s of the 20th century, to erase original free art and music. Notice how everything can be destroyed svery fast (in a century) driven by an ideology based on fear. But if you was born inside, what can you understand from this context? A global fight competition as sense of the life? And how far we are possessed by greed to feel it as “natural life”? Look how the Western Empire destroyed the curiosity [believed as fear generator] of the music lovers for music and art. Behaviour followed by all other dominated nations and developed in a global false business competition: only to found a global terrestrial power to be able to harm as most as possible human beings. This is what mediocracy does. And its greed is proportional to its fear of lack. [6] Notes [1] Why to produce differences? Art and music exist because they create differences by making original piece of art and original music. Producing copies = similarities it is what the market produce to compete prices of a similar product with an aggressive intention of selling everything at the best price. This competition creates economical war. The problem? This game puts lives in danger (including the live of the businessmen, believing they are protected in their bunkers!). [2] infected [3] It is impossible to compete differences. (Because there is nothing to compare). Differences produce varieties, peace and freedom. Similarities (copies) produce and increase aggressiveness, and sustain hostilities in permanent war. [4] where Madonna is the iconic model, and pattern copied and recopied of the ideal false singer-dancer-business-women. (Michael Jackson was just a puppet of the music market industry). [5] The cinema (first an art) became "the ideal art" (= an industry) in this business world; selling dreams everybody buys, especially the teens (in need of massive entertainment to forget the nightmare of this real hostile social life). The cinema industry generates so much money that every human activity, as sold fake art and sold fake music, are attached and non-detachable to the cinema industry. A massive global monopoly conducted by the Americans since the 2d World War. [6] and has the unfortunate habit to ruin everything by consuming. Post-script Why I wrote this text in English, being born French? English is the language for the global (aggressive) business Who affects, infects, and destroyed Art, Music and Science = the knowledge possible to grow up human intelligence. To be able to buy, you have to be stupid = an ignorant follower. Otherwise, nothing could be sold so easy.