anti-human and bestial policies?

With only one and a half weeks until Australians hit the voting booths, election fever is rampant. My letterbox is struggling with the copious amounts of party propaganda being stuffed into it daily... It seems ironic that, as I type this entry, I'm looking (from my bedroom window) across at the famous Corridor of Oaks, where a new oak tree has been planted over the course of history for each Australian Prime Minister. Will a new one be planted in the coming weeks? Or will "Howard's stump" (his tree was chopped down long ago by locals) continue to serve as the symbol for Australia's current leadership?

In the midst of arguing politics with friends, writing letters to local members and organising/participating in rallies on climate change and human rights, I stumbled across an arts policy that made me realise I had it all wrong!

Who needs to worry about 'aspirational' goals on climate change and the violation of basic human rights for Australians in the NT and refugees, when we can turn to classical music to "generate a culture of beauty, allowing us to understand the true nature of mankind"?

The Citizens Electoral Council of Australia promote "classical music, visual arts and great classical theatrical productions to counter the anti-human, bestial policies represented by the rock-drug-sex counterculture, which took off in the 1960s." The policy is all too brief, but it seems that they actually mean 'Classical' in the true sense of the word and their opinions on "hideous modernist and postmodernist 'art'" is quite clear. Hmm, it doesn't seem to fare well for contemporary composers either! Though whether their music is also "anti-human and bestial" remains unclear...

All hail Classical music!