Footnotes to Plato from the foothills of the Superstition Mountains

Is Art Political?

Some say that art is inherently political because man, by nature, is a political animal (Aristotle) and humans make art.  By that reasoning, everything humans do is political.  But if everything from mathematics to entomology to defecation is political because done by the political animal (zoon politkon), then it doesn't mean much of anything to say that art or anything else is political.

Art is inherently  political only for leftists for whom everything is political.  Another argument against leftism.


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