It's because the Overton Window exists for all things, not just politics.
This very much effects art, and I think it's a good example of what happened in early America and in the Dark Ages in Europe. The cultural artifacts of those time periods were vastly inferior to the cultural artifacts that came before because the europeans were disconnected from Rome (and Rome itself was degenerating), while the Americans were 6 months away from any sort of cultural connection to England.
It wasn't just that weird flat faced art and simple stone statues were a fad in those times, it's that the master artisans, and the capital investment of wisdom into formal knowledge had been lost. When the formal knowledge is lost, then the society has to re-learn how to do certain things. In the Dark Ages, people who lived under Roman Rule literally did not know who built the bath houses they lived next to, what language they spoke, or why they were there in the first place, or even that their great grand parents were the ones who used them.
Under the collapse of the Roman Empire, the societies that had been living under Roman rule, had re-normalized their older traditions because the Romans hadn't integrated them into their systems and institutions enough to actually replicate them. Some Roman villas did survive for a few generations, but an authoritarian system doesn't really allow for it's colonies to survive indefinitely without support. The Overton Window on morality, technology, and art had shifted away from the Empire.
In America, master artisans didn't want to go live in an untamed wilderness that was absolutely surrounded by wolves and Indians. And it wouldn't do them any good because the place was being settled by religious zealots that wanted a heavy emphasis on individual rights, and even spurrned arts. Mark Twain isn't just one of the first great American writers, he's almost one of the only ones that are worth even being mentioned. American literature certainly exists, but the best writing comes from people who were already learning in Europe and came to the Americas. The quality of American-born writers was trash, and nobody really expected it to be good. So, there was a kind of Overton Window shift on the quality of writing being re-normalized to sub-par if it was American colonial.
The SJW's are actually a kind of cultural Vandal that has seized upon the structures of our civilization, and wishes to use it, but doesn't know how. They mimic the aesthetic, but infuse it with their own morals and traditions (what few there are), and don't understand why the occupied people like it. However, it's gone on for so long that people are beginning to just accept that the Vandals are simply not capable of replicating the material we are used to, so we begin applauding them when they make a good facsimile of art every once in a while, because we hope it's a sign that they are learning.
They are not. A parallel civilization must be constructed from the ashes of our own, and the Vandals must be kept at the gates.
It's because the Overton Window exists for all things, not just politics.
This very much effects art, and I think it's a good example of what happened in early America and in the Dark Ages in Europe. The cultural artifacts of those time periods were vastly inferior to the cultural artifacts that came before because the europeans were disconnected from Rome (and Rome itself was degenerating), while the Americans were 6 months away from any sort of cultural connection to England.
It wasn't just that weird flat faced art and simple stone statues were a fad in those times, it's that the master artisans, and the capital investment of wisdom into formal knowledge had been lost. When the formal knowledge is lost, then the society has to re-learn how to do certain things. In the Dark Ages, people who lived under Roman Rule literally did not know who built the bath houses they lived next to, what language they spoke, or why they were there in the first place, or even that their great grand parents were the ones who used them.
Under the collapse of the Roman Empire, the societies that had been living under Roman rule, had re-normalized their older traditions because the Romans hadn't integrated them into their systems and institutions enough to actually replicate them. Some Roman villas did survive for a few generations, but an authoritarian system doesn't really allow for it's colonies to survive indefinitely without support. The Overton Window on morality, technology, and art had shifted away from the Empire.
In America, master artisans didn't want to go live in an untamed wilderness that was absolutely surrounded by wolves and Indians. And it wouldn't do them any good because the place was being settled by religious zealots that wanted a heavy emphasis on individual rights, and even spurrned arts. Mark Twain isn't just one of the first great American writers, he's almost one of the only ones that are worth even being mentioned. American literature certainly exists, but the best writing comes from people who were already learning in Europe and came to the Americas. The quality of American-born writers was trash, and nobody really expected it to be good. So, there was a kind of Overton Window shift on the quality of writing being re-normalized to sub-par if it was American colonial.
The SJW's are actually a kind of cultural Vandal that has seized upon the structures of our civilization, and wishes to use it, but doesn't know how. They mimic the aesthetic, but infuse it with their own morals and traditions (what few there are), and don't understand why the occupied people like it. However, it's gone on for so long that people are beginning to just accept that the Vandals are simply not capable of replicating the material we are used to, so we begin applauding them when they make a good facsimile of art every once in a while, because we hope it's a sign that they are learning.
They are not. A parallel civilization must be constructed from the ashes of our own, and the Vandals must be kept at the gates.