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Would better literature be produced under monarchy and aristocracy than is produced under democracy?

I've been thinking about this. What form of government and society produces the best art? If we assume that the system of government, and the model of society, has a profound influence on the kind of art produced by that society, then isn't the quality of art produced a measure of judging how good or bad a social and political system is?

Everybody loves the art that comes from Europe from the 12th through the 19th Century, and this includes the literature. Dante. Chaucer. Petrarch. Machiavelli. Shakespeare. Spenser. Schilling. Goethe. On and on and on. Everybody loves it and wonders why nobody writes like those guys any more. But what if the answer is that their sociopolitical conditions helped generate the art they produced, and the reason we can't produce art like that is because our sociopolitical conditions are different?

Would better literature be produced under a monarchy than under a democracy?

>> No.14961118

>>14960976
The form of government is pretty inconsequential - what matters is the base worldview behind it, because that is what's really reflected in the art
The worldview usually manifests as aristocracy and monarchism but can also take the form of democracy and republicanism, as in Italy

>> No.14961126

>>14961118
To be fair the form of Italian republicanism was rather different and had a lot of aristocratic and clan aspects.

>> No.14961168

>>14960976
>modern literature is so shit that people are asking for an aristocratic monarchy

lol based

>> No.14961173

France produced great literature consistently from 1800-1900 despite fucking around with several forms of ruling. Unless a government is actively murdering all of its authors it doesn't really make a difference.

>> No.14961203

>>14960976
>Everybody loves the art that comes from Europe from the 12th through the 19th Century, and this includes the literature. Dante. Chaucer. Petrarch. Machiavelli. Shakespeare. Spenser. Schilling. Goethe. On and on and on. Everybody loves it and wonders why nobody writes like those guys any more
"Everybody" loves those authors because after hundreds of years of canon-building what survives are the authors most pleasing to the widest audience. Then the canon is instituted in schools making sure that students learn how to appreciate these authors. There is plenty of literature better than Chaucer produced in the 20th century.

>> No.14961215

>>14961203
>>14960976
And then theres the fact that a non monarchy like the US is well represented in the canon