ISSUE190【DIES IN THE FLAMES】

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感觉这篇文章没什么话说，俄。。参考了前人的几篇文章，尝试了一下极端观点，字数有点少～～

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."

Let’s imagine such a situation: One day we attended a gorgeous concert and the music was so euphonious that we were immersed ourselves in it. When ended, we got out of the grand hall, surprisingly, finding that beggars and slums were everywhere on the street. Everyone would realize its ridiculous. Of course government should invest the public resource into people’s basic needs rather than art.

Anyway, people must live first. It is impossible for people to seek for the art without these basic needs. Assuming a case, when a normal person is in the state of hunger or unemployment for a period of time, he could then lose the competence to living, not to mention create artwork. Nobody can accomplish anything without the necessary means. However talent the artist is, if there are no living conditions, he could do nothing. Furthermore, people’s living condition is closely interrelated to social stability. Overview the history of the world, every time when civilians suffered from hunger and cold, some riots would be taken place, which could lead to the social unrest. This phenomenon always indicated an ending of the dynasty. Just as Karl Marx, a famous philosopher said:”the mismatch between economic base and social superstructure is a major source of social disruption and conflict.”

Even if people’s basic needs have been satisfied, whether the government should support the arts is still open to doubt, since it may cause some unexpected problems. For one thing, when government funds an artist, they may ask the artist to transfer the ownership to them as compensation. This activity that like fishing in the trouble water is grieved—artwork didn’t belong to artist, but the people who don’t have knowledge of art. For another thing, government may take control over the artists by subsidizing art, letting them not to create artwork reflecting the social disease and only produce artwork revealing government’s feat. In this case, artists lose themselves completely and become a tool of eulogizing government. Social diseases are concealed temporarily and nobody would suffer from this except a quantity of ordinary people who live at the foot of social hierarchy. These uncertainties tell us: it should be scrutinized carefully before funding art.

Furthermore, this question factually reflects a relationship between material need representing adequate food and jobs and spiritual need standing for art. According to a theory of hierarchy of needs by psychological savant Maslow: human needs can be classified into five categories, including physiological needs, safety and security needs, love and belongingness, self-esteem and self-actualization. The physiological needs, food and jobs, is at the bottom of pyramid and is also vital. While art, which can somehow be regarded as the self-actualization need, is at the summit of pyramid. If we want to meet this need, all the lower needs should be fulfilled first, especially the basic material needs.

In sum, the first and foremost problem is whether people have adequate food and clothes. If people are in a state of hunger and unemployment all the time, and government raises a huge investment from public resource in the art simultaneously, it would be the biggest joke in the world.

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Let’s imagine such a situation: One day we attended a gorgeous concert and the music was so euphonious that we were immersed ourselves（这个地方去掉此词或者是前面的WERE）in it. When ended, we got out of the grand hall, surprisingly, finding that beggars and slums were everywhere on the street. （描述好到位啊~~学习啦~~）Everyone would realize its ridiculous. Of course （这个地方的OF COURSE是不是有点牵强呢，个人认为应该与前面的那段话联系一下，前面换成个疑问句，吧IT指明， 与题目再联系一下是不是更好呢~）government should invest the public resource into people’s basic needs rather than art.

Anyway, people must live first. It is impossible for people to seek for the art without these basic needs. Assuming a case, when a normal person is in the state of hunger or unemployment for a period of time, he could then lose the competence to living, not to mention create artwork.（我发现了 呵呵 你是意象派~~） Nobody can accomplish anything without the necessary means. However talent the artist is, if there are no living conditions, he could do nothing. （这个地方用虚拟语气会不会好点呢~）Furthermore, people’s living condition is closely interrelated to social stability. Overview the history of the world, every time when civilians suffered from hunger and cold, some riots would be taken place, which could lead to the social unrest. This phenomenon always indicated an ending of the dynasty. Just as Karl Marx, a famous philosopher said:”the mismatch between economic base and social superstructure is a major source of social disruption and conflict.”（后面这段很赞 哈哈~）

Even if people’s basic needs have been satisfied, whether the government should support the arts is still open to doubt, since it may cause some unexpected problems. For one thing, when government funds an artist, they may ask the artist to transfer the ownership to them as compensation. This activity that like fishing in the trouble water is grieved—artwork didn’t belong to artist, but the people who don’t have knowledge of art. For another thing, government may take control over the artists by subsidizing art, letting them not to create artwork reflecting the social disease and only produce artwork revealing government’s feat. In this case, artists lose themselves completely and become a tool of eulogizing government. Social diseases are concealed temporarily and nobody would suffer from this except a quantity of ordinary people who live at the foot of social hierarchy. These uncertainties tell us: it should be scrutinized carefully before funding art.

Furthermore, （前面的逻辑很舒服，很自然，语言也很有束缚，但是我不知道这一段的FURTHERMORE在什么地方，是说更深度的理论讨论还是SOMETHING）this question factually reflects a relationship between material need representing adequate food and jobs and spiritual need standing for art. According to a theory of hierarchy of needs by psychological savant Maslow: human needs can be classified into five categories, including physiological needs, safety and security needs, love and belongingness, self-esteem and self-actualization. （不错 哈哈~）The physiological needs, food and jobs, is at the bottom of pyramid and is also vital. While art, which can somehow be regarded as the self-actualization need, is at the summit of pyramid. If we want to meet this needs, all the lower needs should be fulfilled first, especially the basic material needs.

In sum, the first and foremost problem is whether people have adequate food and clothes. If people are in a state of hunger and unemployment all the time, and government raises a huge investment from public resource in the art simultaneously, it would be the biggest joke in the world. （OK 结尾明了~like it）

嘿嘿~~相当膜拜zzz的这篇“意象派”文章 语言很好，特别是中间的说理部分，但是开头和结尾总是让人感觉有什么话没有说清楚，逻辑很明确，出了中间。。。我没理解。。。 例证方面 很多引用 但是如果加上几个例子就更好啦~学习学习中。。。呵呵 中间我认为有问题的地方写在旁边了，改的不好 如果有什么错误，请指出来~