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- From: curtis@cs.berkeley.edu (Curtis Yarvin)
- Newsgroups: misc.writing
- Subject: Re: support for the arts in the US
- Date: 12 Dec 1992 05:29:29 GMT
- Organization: UC Berkeley CS Dept.
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- In article <tfo3udg@zola.esd.sgi.com> rmr@annexia.esd.sgi.com (Robert M. Reimann) writes:
- >
- >> I dunno--my main problem with government support for literature is that
- >> support is control. If you have a benevolent government, the control may
- >> not be exercised, but it exists none the less.
- >
- >The limit of that control is denying funding, which
- >simply leaves the artist or writer to search elsewhere.
-
- Not really; it often happens that government-funded competition in a
- niche field is enough to drive the rest of the pack off the cliff.
- There are already damn few enough publishers who make a profit off
- lit; how many could go ten rounds in the ring with Uncle Sam? When
- your competitor gets his kibble in a bowl and you have to go
- scavenging through the dumpsters, it's easy to see who'll get fat
- and who'll end up an exclamation point on the lane divider of life.
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