Liberals do culture much better than conservatives. They not only make far better art & music & literature & cinema but they have much better taste in all of those things, as well. Maybe it's their higher openness and neuroticism. Culture is where most conservatives seem lost.— A New Radical Centrism (@a_centrism) May 2, 2022
although i bet this guy considers himself a "classical liberal" or some shit and therefore immune from his rule
I think there was a time when conservative sentiments did have a strong influence in the cultural sphere at some time in the past. There are some entire genres that are fundamentally conservative or reactionary, like the Western and the Slasher.
But I feel the influence of conservatism in the cultural sphere has waned in inverse proportion to how much they intensify their victimization/martyrdom complex. Increasingly the conservatives and reactionary have withdrawn to what is essentially their own exclusive media sphere - ie Hallmark movies, evangelical Christian propaganda films, CHUD operator shit like Range 15, the shitty patriotic country music assembly line, etc - which gets shit tons of play almost exclusively within insular conservative circles rather than having a wider cultural impact and influence. They get pissed that "culture" has expanded beyond the extremely narrow confines of aesthetics and themes that they deem "acceptable", and so essentially secede from "the culture" and in turn surrender their real influence within cultural institutions such as Hollywood in order to make mass-produced, self-gratifying, boring crap for their own consumption and little else. And it becomes a self-perpetuating cycle of victimhood, grievance and resentment, conspiracy theory consciousness, and culture war.
Conservatives co-opted country music and turned it into corporate sludge about big trucks and the flag.
Country music was stitched together Frankenstein Monster style out of different pre-existing folk music traditions as white settler propaganda. It's always been sludge, it's just been reduced to a thicker, gooey sludge
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When you commit to human instrumentality but then make the most boring reality possible
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Paolo Freire also makes the point in Pedagogy of the Oppressed that conservatism is an anti-creative ideology.
I think there was a time when conservative sentiments did have a strong influence in the cultural sphere at some time in the past. There are some entire genres that are fundamentally conservative or reactionary, like the Western and the Slasher.
But I feel the influence of conservatism in the cultural sphere has waned in inverse proportion to how much they intensify their victimization/martyrdom complex. Increasingly the conservatives and reactionary have withdrawn to what is essentially their own exclusive media sphere - ie Hallmark movies, evangelical Christian propaganda films, CHUD operator shit like Range 15, the shitty patriotic country music assembly line, etc - which gets shit tons of play almost exclusively within insular conservative circles rather than having a wider cultural impact and influence. They get pissed that "culture" has expanded beyond the extremely narrow confines of aesthetics and themes that they deem "acceptable", and so essentially secede from "the culture" and in turn surrender their real influence within cultural institutions such as Hollywood in order to make mass-produced, self-gratifying, boring crap for their own consumption and little else. And it becomes a self-perpetuating cycle of victimhood, grievance and resentment, conspiracy theory consciousness, and culture war.
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Good points but
Country music was stitched together Frankenstein Monster style out of different pre-existing folk music traditions as white settler propaganda. It's always been sludge, it's just been reduced to a thicker, gooey sludge