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Originally Posted by sob
Perhaps you would share your elevated consciousness with us, and explain how so much art has survived for thousands of years without public funding.
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Dostoevsky can attest to the massive sum that nationalized/public artistic and cultural sites cost the people every year in France.
Simply put, humans in general have so much more potential, the pie has to be divided up between those who enrich lives and those who advance culture. At some point, culture is going to lose out in national policy circles. I'd rather have artists relegate the paintbrush to their evenings if it means we solve more serious social concerns like conflict, hunger, disease..art is a wonderful way to convey and evoke emotion, but it does little to feed the hungry.
Art will survive, and it will continue to progress, and there will never be a concensus as to what is acceptable. There must be limits on what is acceptable, however, and you cannot say that all the random nudity in Europe is because nudity is man's natural state, and that's a good thing to show when you're selling food. Nudity is evocative, no matter how "accepted" it is in one's culture.
I also don't see the US having mass media seizures like the UK does, for instance, when it deems material like metal music inappropriate (Read the booklet inside Metallica's "Garage Days Revisited").
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