Jeffrey Tucker on government lockdowns and the arts

Governments declared arts to be nonessential, dispensable, abolishable. It’s the biggest attack on art and beauty possibly since the iconoclasm of the 16th century, when mobs sacked churches, tore out paintings, and melted candlesticks in bonfires. Back then the motivation was to purify the world of sin. Now we think we are purifying the world of disease.

~ Jeffrey Tucker, "The Lockdowns Might Be Killing the Arts," AIER.org, July 14, 2020