The arts once were the forum where the creative mind expressed itself and provided insight. Plato recognised that art provided insight and a handgrip to articulate the sublime, the subtle and difficult. Metaphor simile and fable may provide truisms. The Republic does this argument and art combine according to Allan Bloom in his introduction to his literal translation of The Republic, which in my view exceeds the English ones of Lee and Cornford.
As with the VUW School of Music. Australian arts manifest the dumbing down to ego-driven dull ideological woke maxims- is this not a form of propaganda in the service of conformity at the expense of thought and creativity?
Read on. It is no better in Australia: https://www.spectator.com.au/2...