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TOPIC: 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 uses of such money."
Although public resource is required to be made good use of mitigating social problems, an advancing and harmonious society is not just about solving troubles. It is appropriate to spare some public resource to support the art, for art is one part of public benefits as well. The proper funding of art won't have negative effect on the solution of social problems like hunger, unemployment and the low ability of workers, and at the same time, abandoning of art support doesn't do much to help improve those awful situations.
The allocation of public resource doesn't mean that all of them is utilized on mitigation of social problems. Including hunger, unemployment and lack of effective working training for people, most social problems are long-term issues and unlikely to be completely solved during the progress of people's society. To support the art when those problems are totally settled means to never fund any art. As a matter of fact, the utilization of public resources covers all the aspects on society improvement, which is not just about solving problems. Any society that focuses too much on social flaws is bound to be too passive to cheer up people to go ahead and be bogged down in the negative sides.
As a matter of fact, public resources are about both settling problems and improving the present conditions, and art, as one big part of people's benefits--although sometimes it might solely involve a small number of people--is indispensable for the advancement of modern society and the improvement of people's life. Theatres, cinemas, galleys or museums are nearly one part of people's life. In spite of the high pace of modern life, people can still find some space for themselves in music, pictures, dramas and films. Some might dispute that it is unfair or even cruel that some people can enjoy all this when there are still someone that is suffering from hunger or serious financial problems. Yet can we say that it is justifiable to make all people ascetic solely because the world is still not perfect? What the best way in which we achieve a good society is to make most people with good life live better and try to help those less fortunate ones get rid of the nadir and hence live better.
Of course, since art could get other type of support from individuals or some organizations, social problems, to some extent, require more public resources and it is completely allowable and appropriate. After all, the society cannot achieve significant development without the mitigation of social problems. And at the same time, the art won't thrive even with the great funding of government in a rampant social environment. What the critical is to find a point to counterbalance between both the issues so that people can live better in a more harmonious society.
In sum, the allocation of public resources must involve two sides including solving the problems and improving life. It is insensible to spare all the resources to focus one some specific problems and let the art alone. To make the society thrive, how to ensure all people--both the fortunate and the unfortunate--to live better.
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自己没改,中间有点乱,可能“social problems”这个提法太泛了不够扣题目?同学们指正啊 |
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