The covertness matters. That’s what differentiates a work from being propaganda.

And I will keep repeating myself. I’m not criticizing his work. I’m not criticizing his work. I’m not criticizing his work. What I wrote isn’t in any way an attempt to dismiss his work or to make it lesser. If that’s what you got out of it, that’s on you, not on me. You keep insisting on something that’s not there, and ignoring my telling you it’s not there. Why do you want me to be dismissing and criticizing his work so badly that you won’t listen to me when I keep telling you that you’re completely and utterly wrong about what I’m doing, and that your complaints about him being a contemporary is not in the least relevant? I even provided another work he did as a counter to “West Is Everywhere You Look,” and that doesn’t seem to have had any effect on the fact, which I have repeated again and again and again, that what I wrote was an analysis and not a criticism, and has nothing to do with its being contemporary or not.