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>the left promotes that all cultural advancement only comes from the left, nothing culturally worth anything comes from the right. The right promotes that idea
by fnordfnordfnord 11y ago
>the left promotes that all cultural advancement only comes from the left, nothing culturally worth anything comes from the right.
The right promotes that idea too; or rather, that all (gov't sponsored) cultural advancement only comes from the left.
- cousin_it 11y agoI guess the orthodox right-wing view is that "progress" shouldn't apply to culture at all, and that it actually ruins culture: a person thinking of progress will never build the Sagrada Familia, only the Barbican Estate. (Similar examples can be found for music, literature, the visual arts, etc.)
- gglitch 11y agoWe're saying Gaudi's work represents tradition?
- cousin_it 11y agoWell, it's a Catholic basilica in a mostly Gothic style that's being built for 100 years. It incorporates some ideas that were new for its time, but so did the Notre Dame (flying buttresses). I guess traditionalists are not against all new ideas, they're more against thinking that old = bad.
- gglitch 11y agoI'm sure we can agree that anyone who builds a politics on anything as reductive as [old|new] = [bad|good] is not helping much.
- cousin_it 11y agoJust look at any left-wing art manifesto, there's plenty of those. Here's a famous one from 1917 Russia: https://www.marxists.org/subject/art/literature/mayakovsky/1917/slap-in-face-public-taste.htm https://www.marxists.org/subject/art/literature/mayakovsky/1...
- clock_tower 11y agoThat's certainly my view, at least: good and bad are orthogonal to new and old. There are periods where new tends to imply good, others where new tends to imply bad (think of the material culture of the '70s), and others where there's no particular correlation; but if something doesn't contravene your values and objectives, there's no particular reason not to adopt it. Of course, sometimes things turn out to be more hostile to you than you expected them to be, so caution is in order -- but not paralysis.