issue 190 新手发帖请多关照！自己写得很用心不知大家会如何认为

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断断续续准备issue很久了，也是最近才真正开始写， 这是最完整的第一片自认为还好，希求旁观者更清 谢谢
In this statement, the author suggests that the use of public resources to support the arts is inappropriate and even cruel regarding all the potential uses of such money to meet some more basic needs. I fundamentally agree with the author for the reasons listed below.

Art plays an important role in the daily life, and it is indeed sensible for a society to render art available to all people. Men would certainly survive without any forms of art, but that would be a boring and dreadful life. However, does this lead to demand governments funding artists? Probably not. We mentioned that people need art to maintain their well-being, to entertain themselves and to gain the touch of beauty. They are willing to pay for these applications of art. As a vivid illustration, millions of books, paintings, and albums are sold out all over the world every year, admission tickets for concerts, galleries, theaters, or exhibitions also convert to considerable cash. Take Broadway as a more concrete example, it contributes significantly to the local economy by its fine music drama show and the sequenced tourism. The very affluent Hollywood can imply even more. (Although someone may argue that Hollywood manufactures trash rather than art, I consider those movies as great art available to populace.) Before asking government funding too hastily, we should realize that there exist countless artists who never ask help from governments but feed many more people by supplying relative jobs.

We cannot deny that not all arts have commercial value and history indicates many of these financial failures are actually great art. Should we draw back the decisions of not funding art? Vincent Von Gogh is a well known example. His productions are among the most expensive ones, a hundred years after his impoverished death. An artist usually has no other pragmatic skills to make a living. It was his kind brother always supported his necessities. Otherwise we would miss the amazing masterpieces. It seems a relevant instance to support artists. But the question lies in if government's funds can really make arts flourish, and if Vincent’s lot only an accidental case or with general enlightenment? It is more often that numerous mediocre craftsmen lounge all day in the art's name and cause troubles to their fraters as well as to community. For these "artists", giving money is not a good idea and might even undermine the society's serenity and integrity. After all, I believe that a true genius such as Von Gogh shall not give up chasing for beauty in spite of adversity. Correspondingly, a person without talent is not likely to create outstanding art even though he need not spare time for survival.

The third con comes from that even for the genuine talent, government is not incumbent to fund. There are a lot of better going for the public revenue. The masses would feel ease to learn that their taxes are used on the disable, the senile or children, all of whom are considered as more needy minorities and have inspired more compassion, rather than idle artists. There are always much more artists in every corner than that one has imagined. It is obviously impossible to fund each one. Only part of the chosen lucky guys is accessible to the subsidy. But how to choose? What is the reasonable and persuasive standard to distinct the one from another? Moreover It is reluctant to support the less appreciated, which perhaps are the very ones needing help. An unfortunate fact.

After all these consideration, my final opinion is that governments can fund many things more urgent than art, which in some cases need no funds at all and in other cases funds appear as a waste.

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题目在哪里呢？注意一下发帖格式 人家才愿意来看呢

cyanoUID: 161396

谢谢事实的教导．我是新手不懂规矩．本来以为大家都知道题目
issue190 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 use of such money.

cyanoUID: 161396

我觉得自己的思路还是满有见解的．在各处看了几篇同题的自认为我的是最好的：）