The Great Conservative L
Sure, conservatives were smoked out of the arts—but they let it happen. It's in the word: to conserve. The state of the arts is almost entirely left-leaning, and the right just loves to critique from the sidelines. But let’s ask:
- What contemporary museum did you build?
- Which galleries did you launch?
- What funds did you dedicate to beauty?
- How many curators did you support?
- Where are your professional art critics?
- Did you ever back the few dissident artists who still fought for nuance? Or did you just sit there, bitch and moan, and tap out like a D-team on an A-field? Now that the internet and memes have cracked the monopoly—Elon owns X, Rogan hosts the biggest nuance show in the world—you’ve got a shot. You can balance this field. You can enter the terrain, uphold tolerance and excellence, and model something deeper than moral hedonism dressed in virtue signals. You used to build cathedrals. Yes, with the help of famously gay geniuses like Michelangelo. It's always been a mix. But to abandon it all like this?
There’s a history of thousands of years where art, politics, and spirit danced together—cathedrals, temples, poetry, beauty, transcendence. If you're serious about conserving anything worth passing on, it’s your moral obligation to revive that tradition.
Otherwise, maybe drop the title “conservative”—because in the arts, you’ve conserved fuck all for the past forty years. But if you choose to rise now, to steward beauty, depth, and meaning again—welcome back. There's plenty of ground to reclaim.
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