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Originally Posted by roachboy
i assume that no actual experience of the images are required for you to be quite opposed to the fact of them, and to use this as a shallow pretext for attacking the idea of state funding for the arts in general.
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As so often happens with assumptions, you have come to an inaccurate conclusion.
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because of course serrano and mapplethorpe are the only folk to have ever been granted money from the state, and their particular (technically extraordinary--but no matter for conservatives, really--it is all just what they are told it is from the various networks of sanctimoniousness we are plagued with in the states at present....) works are obviously the space to which any such funding leads.
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Care to back up that inaccurate generalization?
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but what i really think drives the conservative opposition to state funding for the arts is their fear of criticism, particularly of criticism that works in registers they cannot collapse back into their fatuous, moralizing understanding of the world.
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Perhaps you would share your elevated consciousness with us, and explain how so much art has survived for thousands of years without public funding.