All the heathen art of the old world is destroyed, and in its place, the Party commissions thousands of pieces depicting truth and beauty in the new order. Viril Arte Nouveau, it’s been christened. The galleries and museums of Homolania are filled with endless images of androphilic idealism. The critics are all agreed: there’s never been a more worthy artistic movement.

The art now depicts beautiful men – usually naked, together, and happy – or else features the land, architecture, machinery and magnificence of Homolania itself. Often both. To put one next to the other is to deepen the bonds that the two share. Homolania is its men, its men are Homolania. All culture is now designed to foster the idea of the National Brotherhood. All men are brothers, blood irrelevant. Brothers feel great bonds of trust and loyalty and love. That is what the Party wants in its homocitizenry.

Or so it claims. The people must trust the Party, for they are the bearers of truth. Whether they trust each other is less important. In fact, suspicion helps maintain order by fostering a culture that prioritizes purity over reason. The Party wants people to rat each other out. And loyalty matters so long as loyalty to each other never supplants loyalty to the State. And love? Well, the Patriarch is love. He asks only for love in return. Whether the homocitizenry love each other is not so relevant.

But culture is about propaganda, not truth. The Party weaponizes culture to spread the idea of a National Brotherhood built on truth, loyalty and love. Viril Arte Nouveau is just one brick in the palace of social conditioning now expertly crafted by the Ministry of Orthodoxy. Suffice to say, not a single piece of this new art contains women. If the idea of women – and therefore the potential for heterosexuality – is to be removed from the population, then women cannot be included in any affect of culture. That is only reasonable.

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