The World explained to VSR: "Only in the arts can you be a royalist without becoming it."

 That's a really interesting line—philosophical and layered. Let's break it down:

Possible interpretation: "Royalist" here can be symbolic of reverence for hierarchy, tradition, or beauty—things often associated with monarchy or aristocracy. In politics or real life, being a royalist typically implies you support the monarchy—you adopt a certain social or political stance, and there's no distance between your belief and your identity. But in the arts, you can admire, explore, or indulge in grandeur, tradition, hierarchy, or formality (like in classical painting, regal characters, courtly themes, etc.) without endorsing monarchy in real life. So the arts offer a kind of aesthetic or symbolic freedom—you can "play" with being a royalist, romanticize it, use it as a metaphor, or critique it through imitation, without actually becoming one in a literal or ideological sense. It speaks to the imaginative space the arts give us—to inhabit ideas without being bound by them.

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