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# Simon Elmer on the woke destruction of art
- URL: https://www.jermwarfare.com/simon-elmer-on-the-woke-destruction-of-art/
- Published: 2025-11-14T07:03:33.000Z
- Updated: 2025-11-14T07:13:18.000Z
- Description: Art has become utter postmodern garbage—shallow and devoid of meaning and emotion. And it's all by design.
- Author: Jerm
- Tags: Culture wars, Art, Simon Elmer, Wokeness

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Simon Elmer is the Head of Research for [Architects for Social Housing](https://architectsforsocialhousing.co.uk/?ref=jermwarfare.com), an organisation focused on critiquing housing and urban policies, and he has authored several books on topics like biosecurity, fascism, and architecture.

I loved his piece about the woke death of art, [*Culture Wars: The Piper and the Archer*](https://architectsforsocialhousing.co.uk/2025/08/20/culture-wars-the-piper-and-the-archer/?ref=jermwarfare.com), in which he argues that art has been repurposed as propaganda to advance corporate and state agendas, losing its critical role.

He adds that identity politics are now enforced through laws, education, and media as an official ideology, leading to censorship, suppression of dissent, and erosion of freedoms. 

In fact, it's worse than that. It's about the [death of Europe](https://www.jermwarfare.com/mass-immigration-christianity-and-the-collapse-of-europe/).

> The end-game of the Great Reset is the ethnic cleansing and, eventually, the demographic replacement of Europeans from our homelands.  
>  
> — Simon Elmer

And it's not organic.

It's by design.

![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/c7/82/c7826764-1091-409a-ac4a-3cdf32a7a528/content/images/2025/11/Digital_Slavery.jpg)

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## Talking points

- Art is too obscure for the public.
- Woke culture turns art into propaganda.
- Art and community interdependence causes identity loss.
- Corporate commodification and state ideologies control artists.
- AI lacks emotion for true art.

> The death of art has been proclaimed for at least a century, most loudly, perhaps, by Dada during the Great War in Europe; but its clarion call has been sounded with diminishing ferocity over the last few decades.  
>  
> — Simon Elmer