As
@Beige described, the Geek Social Fallcy of putting tolerance and inclusion front and centre really did a number on any industries where backroom nerdy creatives gather. The harmless autist has no evolved defence against the bpd tranny.
PL: 20 yrs experience working in visual arts/heritage and most of the painters I know are the sort of mildly conservative types who were considered left leaning a decade or so ago before the left went fucking mental. They're just boring nerdy artists who care only about the craft and philosophy of art, and very little beyond that, and wouldn't cheapen their vocation by bringing something as inconsequential as politics into it. The galleries, curators and other industry parasites in arts and culture
on the other hand...the really uncreative ones are the virtue signalling blue hairs who put everyone else off the arts, turn up in paint-spattered dungarees to make sure you know they're like really creative, yeah? These caricatures live in a symbiotic relationship with simpletons who want to give grants to/buy art from reassuringly quirky, creative-coded people. It's a good grift that supports armies of the fuckers.
Then they write the exhibition blurbs, the institution policies and the job ads and all art is seen through their lefty filter, despite the majority of contemporary visual artists actually getting shows not being half as politicised as the institutions who they have to deal with. The punters who just want to see contemporary art don't actually want DEI shoved down their throats by the gallery and theres no logical reason such institutions should have come to think politics and virtue signalling was their first and foremost role, rather than fasclitating access to art. But we ended up with a system that hired DEI grifters who just infect institutions and self-replicate at the expense of the host.
Now that I think of it, the idea of the creative person as an encoded caricature that can be performed - It's like trannies, isn't it? Performing the most absurd simplified gender stereotypes and having the world nod along with the gender clowns as if real people aren't real enough any more.
The average idiot consumer wouldn't recognise creativity if it wasn't presented in a recognisable package.