Treatise

We the Demagogues of The Cargo Culte postulate that art is the central element in our conspicuous display of wealth, status and lineage among our elite class. Lacking talent and ideas of our own, the music and fashion of the dispossessed will provide the fuel for a new and syncretic identity for us, the colonial elites. To create the splendor of an entirely new culture and establish it’s credibility, we the Demagogues and you as our gentle patrons, will exploit and coopt the distinctive aspects of the autochthonous…documenting new myths of origin, new treatise cementing our special favor and establishing a new hierarchy…