Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1997/10/31
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]At 01:58 AM 10/31/97 -0500, Bob wrote: >Government makes loans to small businesses. Government underwrites >infrastructure like roads to facilitate interstate commerce. Government >invests in research and development which eventually becomes manifest in >products marketed commercially. [If you read this, you use one.] Art is no >different. It too has an economic value the government can justifiably >support. > >The trick is to support 'safe' art. The government can't promote safe >religion for constitutional and psychological reasons. Religions trade on >their exclusivity. Art trades on its universality. I reckon a successful >administrator of a government agency charged to support art would probably be >successful if he or she encouraged that universality as its standard. As an anarchist, I, of course, oppose stealing money from those who have it for any purpose, whatsoever. If business can't survive on its own merits, let it go under. If art can't survive on its own merits, let it go under. Leave my bloody goods and possessions, few as they are, alone, PLEASE! Marc msmall@roanoke.infi.net FAX: +540/343-7315 Cha robh bas fir gun ghras fir!