[Blind Eye Jones]

Most great self respecting artists will realize their own greatness and, therefore, they don't buy into the radical egalitarianism that's demanded by the Left... not that they don't have a social conscience. I don't know how you can mention any of these names, especially Oscar Wilde, who perhaps had the greatest sense of his own extraordinary talents and, therefore, deserved social inequality. Artists have always realized that they are not equal to the masses... at least the honest ones. They may have hated the Bourgeois for being a crass philistine which is different from Marx hating the bourgeois for economic and social reasons. Neo Marxists have done wonders to co-opt and confabulate the two aspects of being Bourgeois... they also co-opted and distorted the views of perhaps the greatest Continental right wing thinker, Nietzsche, for their own use.

I like your theory. It is true that is great instability in the arts and not everyone can be an artist. The great ones are just that way by their own natural temperament with every little choice.

[Melas]

Most great self respecting artists will realize their own greatness and, therefore, they don't buy into the radical egalitarianism that's demanded by the Left... not that they don't have a social conscience. I don't know how you can mention any of these names, especially Oscar Wilde, who perhaps had the greatest sense of his own extraordinary talents and, therefore, deserved social inequality. Artists have always realized that they are not equal to the masses... at least the honest ones. They may have hated the Bourgeois for being a crass philistine which is different from Marx hating the bourgeois for economic and social reasons. Neo Marxists have done wonders to co-opt and confabulate the two aspects of being Bourgeois... they also co-opted and distorted the views of perhaps the greatest Continental right wing thinker, Nietzsche, for their own use.

Thinking that you're better than everyone else has little if anything to do with be on the right, or conservatism in general. As a matter of fact, the complete opposite is true. Radical egalitarianism is born from those feelings of superiority, not a misguided sense of equality. It's the very basis of the philsophy of Noblesse Oblige which was is the intellectual birthplace of much of liberalism.