Degenerate Art

Criticize as you will the poets & the artists & the musicians for their impractical & fanciful endeavors, for being dreamers [or for being nightmarish, unfocused, & angry dissidents, as the case may be] -- but remember almost every war fought in the history of humanity was fought to protect a culture, an ideology, a way of life. Without culture, art, music, free thinkers & dreamers, war alone would merely be the way of life, & every war would necessarily be fought in vain. Fought to protect nothing. War for the sake of war. & War for the sake of war is the worst evil; an evil dangerously reachable. The day censorship, control, sanitizing & whitewashing, force, & vapidity outweigh creativity... The day beauty is forgotten humanity has lost its meaning.