And the wild part is I remember for a time G*mers screeching about wanting critics like Roger Ebert to take games seriously as an art. Now they got their wish, developers are treating their projects like art, and they don’t like it because it dares to make them uncomfortable sometimes.
because fascists view art as the maintenance of aesthetic. to a fascist, art must inherently pursue and preserve a standard of ‘beauty’. it feels nonsensical, but fascism is an ideology fundamentally centered around mythos and culture. An ‘uncouth’ or ‘ugly’ culture is ‘d/generate’, whereas a ‘moral’ and ‘pretty’ culture is ‘pure’. fascists view art as the battlefield, because fascist analysis places the aesthetic at the level of importance that we place material conditions.
CHUDs constantly go on about “beauty” but fascists single-handedly turn country music into a punchline.
They’re not even good at living out their own values.