>>42427all the specific problems you worry about are non problems. the materialist explanation is that you are living in a society where the dominant media-format is the internet and you are spending your time looking at places where people you regard as puritan congregate. you want eroticism and art to meet? go to furaffinity. go to a twitter circle full of chronic masturbators instead of one full of discourse-fiends. christ, go to leftypol.org and scroll down the overboard. really, that's all it is: find another circle of people. you are floating in an ocean of islands, have found an island that annoys you, and now you fear that every island is like this. well it isn't, there's an infinite number of islands. what should really be frightening you is not the specific social annoyances of one island or another, but the fact that you are trapped on a canoe in a world full of islands.
the scary thing for art is not that puritans may come in and ruin it - so what if they did? look to history, plenty of people have come along and tried to dictate how art ought to work, failed painters have killed over the topic, and yet we wound up here. no, the scary thing is that the very idea of an artistic canon or progression of history, as such, has taken a fatal wound: with no island to write the dominant history, who is to say what matters and what doesn't? we may track from greek statues to socialist realism without trouble, but what do you do in 2024? how much space do you devote to tumblr's red noses, to google's blob-people, to the development of furry art from 2005's goth-anime sparkledogs to today's proliferation of styles, most of which ruthlessly targeted at certain pornographic niches? i'll tell you how: you don't. you don't have the space. the canon is a vestige of the era of "linear" media, of books and TV. you are living in the age of hypermedia, so pick an island and set sail.