[i习作temp] 〓DIES IN FLAMS〓　Issue190 by cmj [复制链接]

190 "As long as people in a society are hungry or out of work or lack the basic skills needed to survive, the use of public resources to support the arts is inappropriate—and, perhaps, even cruel—when one considers all the potential uses of such money."

When will there be a society that no one suffers from starvation? Perhaps the answer sounds desperate for our humanity. From the beginning of human society, those cavemen gathered for safety and food. Till now, we keep the habit of staying together in the concrete forest while still hanging around every single minute for the fulfillment in stomach. We are strong, as well as vulnerable, within the cage of power and right. We may have funds, insurances as well as subsidies from government in case of some catastrophes, but they still seem too little to help when a storm of economic depression swept all over. The Great Depression in 1930s may not be remembered by many but the contemporary one must leave everyone a nightmare. Even the Titan of motors, like General Motors, faces bankruptcy. Even Nike has cut down its faculty number. How will those job-losers sustain their family since then?

Meanwhile, artists are facing poor life. Their spirits in the works may not cater to society at first; their forms of expression may not be understood by most; they can not make enough money from their talents.对artist的理解太到位了！学习！ If there was no such a shock in society, those rich people would like to purchase on arts. But as the depressive wave washes off their extra money, and clears up their desire to purchase on things not practical, arts, under the effects of Lipstick, find their life harsh than ever. What can we do to help? Some of them will give us the lasting value of humanity, others contains the essence of our culture. We can not leave it alone with our consciousness.

But the problem is that, the public money that can be used is limited and far from enough to comfort all needs.

The current situation in China does point out the leading way. At present, even if there was not such an economic strike, there are still a myriad of people in west China living under the line of poverty. Children in those poor counties walk miles to have a sit in a shabby classroom. Their lunches are only potatoes. Potatoes all day and all year. They may look up with their innocent watery eye, showing their desperate needs for knowledge.这段描写得很传神！你所描绘的景象感觉就在眼前Bills need to be paid for their classrooms, text books, teachers and etc. They need to be taught how to earn themselves a better life. But when these children grow up, with some knowledge about the outside world, they start to move, to work in cities, buried their homeland culture deep inside to adapt to the hasty pace of modern life. Their homeland culture, a special ritual or some folks or some traditional ways of drawing, are endangered with their scarce offspring willing to learn this nonprofit craft. Culture is diminishing, which were our Chinese once so much pride of.