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发表于 2009-5-25 03:50:31
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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."
hungry、out of work、lack the basic skills needed to survive、public resources、arts
How should the government appropriately dominate public resources? It has been a controversial argument for a long history. I agree with the statement above that people survival and basic living needs should been considered first compared with arts, however, the value of arts can not be denied, it also play a necessary role in people’s lives.
First and foremost, people’s survival and basic living needs should be in the first place when the public resources allocated by the government. When we came to the earth, we fought for our survival and basic life, and this is still the prerequisite for us to enjoy the life today. Without this, even the most famous artist who wants to sing or dance for you, you will be certain without any mood to appreciate them. The answer is definitely no. Since as long as people hungry, even face the survival danger, what in their eyes are not the colorful arts, but the delicious hamburger. Hence, we should guarantee our basic life first to ensure that we can go further in our lives.
Nevertheless, one can never go too far to say that the use of public resource for art is cruel only because there is a certain group of people remaining unemployed. As we all know, the existence of poverty, hungry, or other basic social problems is very reasonable. This problem exists in almost all the countries of the world, even in USA. Did the government stop supporting the development of art? Common sense tell us that art is also a business factory, when the government invest it, it will also reward with a lot of profits, in this way, the development of art can help the government to boost the certain group of people who live lack of food or below the basic living level. Thus they are not mutually exclusive when considering the allocation of public resource, and it is unreasonable to one-sidedly deny the art’s demand.
On the other hand, we should not deny the value of art to our society. Art enhances life by adding beauty to our surroundings. It is a source of pleasure and relaxation from the stresses of life. It serves to lift the human spirit and to put us more in touch with our feelings, foibles, and fate in short, with our own humanity. With this heightened sensitivity to the human condition, we become more others-oriented, less self-centered, more giving of ourselves.
Besides, by expressing fundamental validities and common problems, art can produce a feeling of coherence. This is its social function which leads to a cultural synthesis as well as to a continuation of human civilization. Art contribute a lot more to our society than the statement can see.
In sum, while we take the basic needs of people in the society to be first considered, it does not mean the inappropriateness of supporting art. The problem is just how much can be invested to the development of art when the government faces with the actual situation. |
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