>>15220>But would yall listen to this music? Or does the fascist ideology behind it make you want to avoid it? I just don't like it. By an exercise of sheer Nietzschean will to power I've decided that since I don't like that song, it sucks. This is my fundamental principle when it comes to art. "I like it" means "it rocks" and "I don't like it" means "it sucks." These may seem like mere opinions but for me they are ironclad eternal truths.
If you disagree, that's fine though.
Well I do think reactionary sensibilities can produce good art, but what I think you can say about "good" art is that someone with talent was willing to make strong aesthetic decisions. It's like the difference in literature between a Houllebecq and a Celine compared to The Turner Diaries. There are a lot of great reactionary writers, and some really shitty ones. This doesn't necessarily require having a progressive point of view. A work with a progressive point of view might not be "good," and throughout history a struggle between progress and reaction has always occurred, and the best work from any age have probably always been written from different viewpoints, and everyone in any given age is also probably bound to be wrong about something big because humans are not perfect and simply don't know everything.
In music, there are all kinds of neofolk groups that wear military or quasi-military uniforms for performances, describe themselves as "cultural soldiers" who are keeping their flag flying, which is their reverence for lost traditions, and righteous scorn of those who are enemies to it. Now someone like that might be a fascist of some kind, or they are more ambiguous, and might just be interested in the aesthetics as an art project and are trying to explore some kind of fascination with it.