Yes it’s partly because our civilisation has been collapsing for some time and we have all been driven to madness, but also because the CIA created a global network of art publications and culture organisations to push this garbage on us during the Cold War.

There was the space race, and there was also the art race:

Modern art was CIA ‘weapon’

Revealed: how the spy agency used unwitting artists such as Pollock and de Kooning in a cultural Cold War

^{http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/modern-art-was-cia-weapon-1578808.html}