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I listen to a lot of metal music, and have since I was a kid, so I'm hypersensitised to seeking out political implications in music. "Wait, are this band nazis, or are they making fun of nazis?" is a question Leftist metallers ask ourselves a lot, because we have to.
But it doesn't seem to be symmetrical: the Right-wing guy who likes Rage Against The Machine and thinks "you shouldn't make it political" is especially funny because we've all met that guy.
I say this to frame a point.
I have a friend a little younger than you who studied economics and is a lifelong fan of Pink Floyd. He's also openly dismissive of socialism and pacifism, as if Floyd weren't both of those things. So I know at least one economics person who's capable of enjoying art without understanding the context. (He's a Keynesian, if that matters.)
This isn't to disparage your entire discipline, of course. Economists are famous for their heterogeneity. Have you observed media literacy being more common in some fields than others?
I listen to a lot of metal music, and have since I was a kid, so I'm hypersensitised to seeking out political implications in music. "Wait, are this band nazis, or are they making fun of nazis?" is a question Leftist metallers ask ourselves a lot, because we have to.
But it doesn't seem to be symmetrical: the Right-wing guy who likes Rage Against The Machine and thinks "you shouldn't make it political" is especially funny because we've all met that guy.
I say this to frame a point.
I have a friend a little younger than you who studied economics and is a lifelong fan of Pink Floyd. He's also openly dismissive of socialism and pacifism, as if Floyd weren't both of those things. So I know at least one economics person who's capable of enjoying art without understanding the context. (He's a Keynesian, if that matters.)
This isn't to disparage your entire discipline, of course. Economists are famous for their heterogeneity. Have you observed media literacy being more common in some fields than others?