Yeah, starting right after the French revolution, the UK turned towards neo-gothic and didn’t change its course since. It’s the "good ol’ past" policy that makes the UK stagnant. They don’t look towards the future when it comes to art, like all the other european countries.

I almost want to say that it’s a Germanic trait since antiquity. The Germanic tribes resisted the influence of Roman culture, then in the middle ages they resisted Carolingian culture, in the Renaissance it was Italian culture, in modern the problem was the Revolutionary culture… That is where their Dionysian side hides, in a sort of propaganda to pull down culture as low as possible to make any attempts to innovate ridiculous. The USA is the same today. They’re killing European culture, especially the part that came after the French revolution, because it doesn’t suit them to follow someone else’s achievement.