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My answer was going to be that they hate not only artists but art itself. Like they wanted Princess Mononoke to end with Ashitaka not getting infected 10 minutes in and that be that.

I honestly believe that they need the whole world to support their vision of masculinity. I think some portion of imperial violence is unrelated to material conditions and solely in service of feeling dominant and expressing a heirarchy for the sake of being on top of it. Like if Chad and Soyjak were around in the 1940s, Hitler would have been sated and WW2 would have been pushed back a year.

I would assert that it's part of being a death cult. I've moved away from "I get it, the European mountain town is probably really cozy." They would never be content. In the ethnostate, someone's child is going to sneak off to the neighboring village that is a little less hardline and bring back a dreamcatcher that a cute girl made. Someone will subsequently be visibly gay, they'll blame it on" ${{slur}}-art," and suddenly the cycle of violence begins anew. Their world must be in service of an antiquated, unsustainable vision of masculinity that is incompatible with the curious mind that art nourishes.

It might also apply to the natural sciences, by the way. You can like the cosmos or the body, but not too much. The size and physics of the cosmos interfere with a specific vision of a patriarchal diety. The immune system and it's coexistence with bacteria and viruses requires too much consideration of society. These things cannot supercede the drive to control and partician others.