For me, I don't find many books that talks about art and politics to bring the attention in the popular culture to the readers. But Hickey did a very good job on telling his view about art in this culture. "Politics" are something that I am personally don't like to get involved, especially when it is part of the process of doing art. Curtainly, I still think that this can't be ignore in anyways because politic exists in pretty much all subjects and it is important that we as artists must recognize this to be an essential part of art.

Hickey use his experiences from listening to music, and doing some ordinary stuff to project his view to the readers on how todays seems like everybody elses tell you which art are good and which are not rather than having use self-judgement and experiences. Hickey also explains that "good taste is the residue of someone else’s privilege.", which often happens when the democracy in this culture kind of took over on how each individual thinks about art.  What we thought was good is the resulting of us being told since we were young and growing up. In art culture, it seems to be that way also, which could be one reason why art become less and less about making new creative stuff but more about making art what will be acceptable to the majority of the audience.

vip