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"the journalist and novelist are no more important than each other" is the easy case. Do you see journalism as more important than fruit picking, than canning, than sewing usable clothes? The belief in "higher" forms of labor is reactionary and people hate admitting it

"Art is actually an insanely humanist and inherently progressive force" is also just some shit made up by French perverts from the 18th century, similar to concepts like "human rights". Much historical art was mostly about venerating God, not channeling our universalist humanist ideas

I am the first to admit that the acceptance and learning to absorb art when I was young (my first roommate was an art history major) was deeply impactful and profound to me. But the idea that art is an innately progressive force is nothing more than ideology cloaked by modern norms.

The author does this interesting thing of quoting Berger to describe how certain kinds of labor are mystified over others for no reason, and then appears to decide that the solution is to apply that mystification to everything equally instead??