I believe in literature and the arts. I know some people argue that literature doesn't (and shouldn't) seek to improve civilization, morality, etc, but I believe it does. In general, I find literary people (by which I mean people who've read a lot of serious/great literature) more humane, empathetic and broad-minded than the average person. Literature can and does change people for the better. And I always felt that no matter what happens, no matter which President or Prime Minister is elected, no matter how fashions change, etc, we will always have the canon to guide, civilize and humanize us.
I no longer believe that. On the contrary, I'm seriously worried. Radio 4, for example, a highbrow station in Britain, can barely mention a white writer without linking him to racism or slavery or colonialism in some way. In fact, it's all they seem interested in. The way we are going in the UK (and I suspect this is true of the US, Canada, France, and many other places) I foresee a time when bookstores will be discouraged or even banned from selling many of the classics. And I'm not talking about controversial writers like Kipling. I mean people like Jane Austen, Dickens, the Brontes, etc.
The canon is now a major target for the BLM movement, and no one is defending it. God knows where this will end. I wouldn't be surprised to hear someone claim that Kanye West is better than T S Eliot, or that Maya Angelou's awful poetry is better than Shakespeare. And no one will dare to disagree. Will we have a law that at least half the books in a bookstore must be by non-white authors? The canon is mostly the work of dead white people, and the left can't bear this, so the only answer is to destroy the canon and make a new one. If anyone objects they scream racism and that's that.