[skywhopper]

This is truly some ahistorical reactionary nonsense. I thought people got tired of complaining about “postmodernism” 30 years ago.

Yes, most art is bad! Historical art seems better because it has stood the test of time, and we don’t see the junk it outlived. Yawn.

[krapp]

The right is weird that way, they're still stuck in a frame of mind and set of references from the 1960s or earlier. They'll talk about "women's lib" and feminism as if they're new, they consider hair dye and piercings to be signs of radicalism, they still think about China as Maoist and Russia as Soviet, and still see the world (and America in particular) through Cold War ideology.

They still complain about hippies as if there were any left. They want to go back to the gold standard. They yearn for the mines and the factories, for the hard times of hard men that they've only read stories about. And of course they believe all modern art and media is infantile, leftist garbage and they harbor a particular mistrust of the "cultural Marxists" in academia.

And the younger they are, the more regressive they get. It's like they're LARPing as characters in a Norman Lear sitcom that they don't understand are supposed to be parodies of them. The trad caths are more hardcore than Catholics have been in a thousand years. The groypers are more racist and misogynist than their own grandparents.

It doesn't surprise me in the least that they're still complaining about postmodernism. They aren't capable of updating their philosophy or looking forward, they can only look backward to an imaginary golden age and the spoils they feel entitled to and robbed of by "the left." They can never get over a fear of the future that's so deeply rooted in fundamentalist Christianity. It's just another wound on their psyches that will never heal.