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And let's not forget that "modern art bad" is just more (traditional) western supremacy in a pseudointellectual trench coat.
EQUATOR had a cool interview that touched on the birth of modern art a few days ago:
While this is true I feel it fails to acknowledge the real history of Europe. Europe was always involved in cultural exchanges with people from other continents, albeit at a slower rate than in modern times. This idea that there is some authentic, independent, ancestral European culture that we need to return to is itself a white supremacist fabrication. So while it's good that people started to turn away from this myth, it's also necessary to acknowledge that it was always an illusion. Those traditional European arts and other cultural cornerstones were also influenced by multiple cultures.
This is a common misconception amongst civilizations throughout history. Usually it reveals a profound misunderstanding/assumption that the people who are being exploited to make those gains will never speak up or rebuke the institutions that take advantage of them.
I'm sure there were Western colonial powers that thought their particularly despicable brand of chattel slavery would last forever and lead to unlimited growth for slave owners and the state. But the people of Haiti and Jamaica revolted. The American civil war followed.
We are certainly at a point which no human has ever seen before today but there will always be "self-cleansing" cycles so to speak.