The War for the Imagination

I was wondering if you had any thoughts from your own experience that might sort of shed light on this character as somebody who was sort of thinking of the Psalms as a kind of war for the imagination. The second, the second question I know I've given you a ton is about prestige and if the diminishment of the prestige of poetry is sort of neutral good or bad how this issue of prestige may or may not relate to the issue of war so do people fight more when there's more prestige at stake or the war is it as Henry Kissinger said? You know no money much less prestige than other forms so it can go either way but let me start with the King David who worked backwards