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Culture War Roundup for the week of February 20, 2023

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It's not worth much thought. Every worthwhile 'Right-wing' artist is either: A. Formerly left-wing; B. A revolutionary progressive at heart. That's it. People who kowtow to the status quo never have anything interesting to say. Here I shall invoke the views of Parmenides, being too lazy to try to quote him: the sole constant in the pantheon of artists' beliefs is that they always go against whatever has been most prominently arrayed against them. I.E., what's the sole thread which connects them all? The fact that they're all different is what shows that they're the same, not actual engaged in impartial or transcendental truth-seeking but just taking the dogmas as they're given and accepting/rejecting them.

Change or innovation of the beliefs-that-be is the preside of thinkers; advocacy or spurning of them that of artists, however much they might like to think otherwise.

I don't think this is accurate at all, "right wing" art is still being made and "right wing" artists are still out there, successful ones even, they're just not "fashionable". Passion of the Christ remains the most successful film of the 21st century in terms of budget to box-office, but it will be a cold day in Hell before anyone in the Hollywood establishment acknowledges it.

I don't think this is accurate at all, "right wing" art is still being made and "right wing" artists are still out there, successful ones even, they're just not "fashionable".

It depends on definition of "right wing".

Is this an art that will shield your kids from socialism?

Flippantly, I'm skeptical about whether that's even art.

More to my point, how many time have you heard someone say something like "I listen to all genres of music except pop and/or country". Fact is that the press and "the Academy" can shower all the attention and awards on non-binary Satanists with questionable fashion sense they want but at the end of they day they aren't the ones filling stadiums. Taylor Swift is.

People who kowtow to the status quo never have anything interesting to say.

So, would you say that people who support the progressive-woke status quo in western countries are the “real” rightists, and people who oppose it are the “real” leftists?

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