This is what killed tonality in classical music: the conscious preference for ugliness over beauty.
Schoenberg was a spiritual soulless-mate of Nietzsche.
It’s been said;
“People don’t have Ideas, Ideas Have people”.
I’m not exactly sure why, but there are a lot of very passionate people that are very comfortable being told what to think and do.
As a Born again Christian, kicking and screaming, through the process of elimination, I don’t need any so-called authority to tell me what I’m supposed to believe.