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Originally Posted by Rob Instigator
arts funding is not to fund some people's ambitions, but to better the lives of every single citizen, whether through access to visual arts, performance arts, music, public broadcasting of performances, etc.
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sure, but i think it's better to do that in a natural way than getting it from the same people who make jails and wars, plus more accessible art is going to benefit almost exclusively from such programs, i hate to think of how many truly great creations are left to sit in the makers basement because a grant went to some hack instead
the bottom line for me is that you can't better somebody's life if they die from hunger or a disease(imagine walking in the city center and not seeing anyone passed out on the sidewalk,sounds like art to me!), and i don't want the corrupt and already far too powerful govt to push themselves into every tiny aspect of our lives