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people have this interesting reaction to any normative imposition in certain domains, and it's particularly evident in aesthetics. it's interpreted as limitation, to which the obvious recourse is to reject the artificial closure of potential, and maintain the autonomy of art.
and the rejoinder is, of course, that it is precisely the autonomy of art that is threatened by the present state of things. credulously bowing down at the throne of instrumental reason is not the realm of freedom you think it is.