In reply to Who is Luc Devroye:
@hrant:
But make sure Culture doesn't get short shrift,
Well, the Nazis tried to promote culture, although they never seemed to get beyond kitsch.
The Communists in Russia had the ballet, and chess, and symphony orchestras. North Korea is also big on music.
So high culture can just be window dressing for tyranny; what the masses need so as not to "live by bread alone" is not so much culture per se as freedom - and to be equipped for critical thinking.
Some forms of culture help that - specifically literature. And I'm sure that's what you really were thinking of in this connection.