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- Path: sparky!uunet!spool.mu.edu!agate!rsoft!mindlink!a4099
- From: Alan_Barclay@mindlink.bc.ca (Alan Barclay)
- Subject: Re: support for the arts in the US
- Organization: MIND LINK! - British Columbia, Canada
- Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1992 07:54:34 GMT
- Message-ID: <18492@mindlink.bc.ca>
- Sender: news@deep.rsoft.bc.ca (Usenet)
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- Curtis Yarvin writes on his oppinion on government support for the arts:
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- /*
- The difference is that presumably you are old enough now to pay
- for your own artistic voices, and do not have to stick a gun in
- the back of poor Great-Aunt Mildred, who has not read anything
- but TV Guide since 1974 and cannot tell artistic voices from
- the mating calls of plumbing.
-
- Do not automatically assume that you are superior to old bag
- Mildred and thus have a right to take her money; even were the
- former true the latter is not, I think, the sort of precedent
- you want to be setting.
- */
-
- Aunt Mildred also knows (and cares) nothing for the trillions spent on
- defence, government subsidy of business, welfare, and lots of other things.
- Government already takes it upon itself to decide 1) that people should pay
- taxes, and 2) what to spend it on.
-
- Are you arguing that one shouldn't subsidize the arts because some
- taxpayers don't care about it?
-
-
- --
- Alan
-
-
- alan_barclay@mindlink.bc.ca
-
- "When is a leg of lamb like a poet?"
-
- Answer: "When it's browning."
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-