I suppose it was bitter and lonely
Nietzsche who let loose the modern artists upon the world in place of
religion and philosophy. His relativity of values and power made
artists think they could replace religion and philosophy, but they
have done a very poor job of it. They have made balloon sculptures
and sunk a crucifix in urine and called it art.
It is not art that is superior, it is
reality that is superior, but art can be a comfort and an affirmation
of the sacred, even if it is not superior to reality or to truth. We
can escape the garbage art of today with reality first, but then
reality needs another version of sacred art, which can be the art of
the future and the past.
What will that art look like? Well
reality includes the biological evolution of material life toward
supermaterial Godhood, and that leaves open many themes.
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