The three monkeys

Whenever I read a magazine or publication associated with the arts I discern almost immediately the extreme left-wing bias permeating the whole thing.
What is it about the arts today?
Is it because of the supposed need to 'exist outside of the petty bourgeoisie, or is it a natural contrariness?
Is it perhaps merely the prosaic reality that the hierarchy of the arts across the various disciplines, have been so successfully 'occupied' (Gramsci's 'long march') that anyone with an alternative paradigm is silenced or shunned?
Having served in the hierarchy myself  I am of the opinion that it is a dash of all three with a preponderance of the latter.
My point:
John Spoehr in the Adelaide Review opines: "It is time to take the political heat out of the climate debate"
implying that it is only politics that causes opposition to what every right thinking MORAL person knows, i.e. that Global warming is TRUE!!! For goodness sake the consensus is in people, to disagree is to be disruptive, dysfunctional, disrespectful and downright immoral!
Spoehr then attempts to denigrate both Abbott and Howard for their being 'wedge politicians' (oh how I wish Howard was back!!!) and then goes on to attempt to scare people witless about what is going to happen if we don't take action on climate change now. These are the folk who incidentally call Abbott a fearmongerer!
Of course any philosophical awareness of irony and/or hypocrisy appears to be absolutely absent from the worldviews of almost all left wingers, the ones I read at least. its almost like most of them just expect people to listen to what they say and believe it...irrespective of any evidence to the contrary. Kind of like Bob Brown, Tim Flannery and AL Gore pontificating about rising water obliterating seasides up to X metres deep and then going out and buying residences and offices right on the waterline.
DO AS I SAY ! they thunder...(subtext: not as I do.)

The wisdom of the prudent is to give thought to their ways, but the folly of fools is deception.
Proverbs 14:7-9