/lit/ - Literature

It's an interesting question. I don't know if I have a good answer, but I've given it some thought.

Contemporary critical culture values literature and art that deconstructs. Throughout the later half of the 20th century at least, a left-wing ethos has been much more effective at providing that deconstruction—certainly in the capitalist west.

Right-wing and left-wing philosophies are fascinating in their own right from a psycho-social standpoint, and I don't know that I've seen anyone really pin down the essence of either flawlessly. But what I will say is that to be right-wing in today's society demands a level of reference toward institutions/ideas that have been in control or been defended for centuries, and it demands some level of emotional unsentimentality toward certain issues. It makes it very hard to make conservative art that feels fresh or moving—or did; society is changing.

There's also the clear fact that the intelligentsia and cultural gatekeepers have learned left socially for a while now, but I think these things feed into each other