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Re: Art Debate Was: [Re: Swearing?]
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Wed, 5 Jan 2000 14:35:57 GMT
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Just to put my oar in here, I too oppose the NEA precisely because it is
not the place of government to decide what sort of art to foster (which
it, having limited funds, must inevitably do).
It is sheer hubris for a government drone to think that his judgement is
superior to that of the market...
If an artist cannot afford to finance his own work, and cannot find a
patron willing to donate funds, perhaps that artist's work is not worthy
of further consideration. The market's never wrong.
I would rather choose how to spend my buck fifty myself. That would be
true even if it were .000230234 cents we were talking about. Funding art
is WAY afield from the proper sphere of government (defense, internal
and external, and administration of justice).
--
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| (...) I have to break in here--do you know who these "government drones" are? Take a look at the message I wrote earlier about how the NEA/NEH operate--I've done some more reading, and while an appointed congress makes final decisions, the advisory (...) (24 years ago, 11-Jan-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| Lindsay: Thanks for some great insights on the topic, in the following quotes and elsewhere: (...) Just to dispel some of my own ignorance here, how "Christian" is the artist in question? And what kind of ties to Catholicism does he have? I mean, my (...) (24 years ago, 5-Jan-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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