The Difficulty of Getting the State to Intervene in Culture

Culture is one of those areas where if the state tries to punch too hard and to use the sovereign fist too much, it'll delegitimate those interventions. And so this is why very often the cultural space is left to individuals on a kind of social movement level. That's part of what makes it an appealing place to try to make change because the state doesn't bother to go there. If the state don't go there, then that leaves a little bit of a vacuum for enterprising individuals and groups who want to become cultural power brokers.