It often seems to me a certain kind of energy interferes with direct communication as if a magnet is pulling things to move in a specific direction. Even following a revolution, same old systems replicate though the revolution was initiated to get rid of that very system. When dealing with promoters directly they low ball me but when using agents the fees go up, sometimes 400% and weirdly the promotors seem to prefer it. Dealing with the agent is a relief to them rather than the artist. When people sell a house the buyer interacts with an agent who keeps the seller away from direct communication. It’s like trying to tell my hands how to play something new, a strange scale, a strange pattern. It simmers over days or weeks. Had to pass through many middle managers. They call it muscle memory but it might just be certain cells want to maintain their monopoly on whether what calls itself I is allowed to influence the rest of the body this directly.