Business men like Don think they understand art because they've successfully sold it. But they're not artistically inclined and can't create anything of lasting value. AI is the promise of The Beatles, and the delivery of Sugar Sugar. The sacrine bubblegum bubble will burst, the beat goes on.

The product of The Monkees was profitable and undeniably human. The human components were so distinct that things like credit and integrity began popping up. To counteract that, Don scraped animated faces, lesser talents in smaller pieces, diffusing credit. They made 1 hit song. It's not great.

We smiled and posed for photos because we saw photos as personal messages to friends and moments in the future that had a well-intentioned connection to us, just as we were in that time and place. Photos and videos shift as a communicative medium as they've become more pervasive and impersonal

While the conditions of surveillance exist for all generations, they aren't experienced the same. Older people don't FEEL surveiled. The internalized sense of having no shield from the glance of an outside force that exists without compassion for you is what the panopticon is.