Crusader War College

Link: http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Front_Page/IE01Aa01.html

Spengler does a fantastic job ripping into the pretensions of the admirers of modern art:

After I wrote Admit it - you really hate modern art (January 30), many readers assured me that I was quite mistaken about them. Especially among the educated elites there are many who will go to their graves proclaiming their love for modern art, and I owe them an explanation of sorts. At the cost of most of few remaining friends, I will provide it.

You pretend to like modern art because you want to be creative. In fact, you are not creative, not in the least. In all of human history we know of only a few hundred truly creative men and women. It saddens me to break the news, but you aren't one of them. By insisting that you are not creative, you think I am saying that you are not important. I do not mean that, but will have to return to the topic later.

You have your heart set on being creative because you want to worship yourself, your children, or some pretentious impostor, rather than the god of the Bible. Absence of faith has not made you more rational. On the contrary, it has made you ridiculous in your adoration of clownish little deities, of whom the silliest is yourself. G K Chesterton said that if you stop believing in God, you will believe in anything.

There is so much goodness, I would be violating his copyrights if I cited what I liked about it.

I think he is spot-on in pinpointing the problem in people wanting to feel indispensable by being creative. And his prescription is highly recommended: Substitute true acts of service to others as a means to become indispensable. My only proviso is that no Christian is truly indispensable: rather one's service should be such that they should be considered irreplaceable. When viewed in that light, the list of the Christian irreplaceable grows considerably larger than Spengler's list of the truly creative.

Go read the whole thing. Highly recommended as a stimulant to further thought. And DO follow the link to his article that he cited.

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Spengler says that Modern Art sometimes "makes one's skin crawl." Very true. However, that effect can be an advantage: the effect of Picasso's "Guernica" partly comes from that ability of modern art to "make one's skin crawl."