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Itâs not about making the world a drab and miserable place. Itâs worse.
âWe need the arts because they make us full human beings. But we also need the arts as a protective factor against authoritarianism. In saving the arts, we save ourselves from a society where creative production is permissible only insofar as it serves the instruments of power. When the canary in the coal mine goes silent, we should be very afraid â not only because its song was so beautiful, but also because it was the only sign that we still had a chance to see daylight again.â
This is also why you should think about how you criticize art. Iâm not saying donât do it, Iâm saying think it through.
Fuck that âyoure not a full human without the artsâ bullshit.
Oh, come off it, youâre a) missing the point and b) drastically underestimating how much art you use every day.
Architecture is art. Fashion is art- and yes, even if you âdonât give a damnâ about fashion and dress in âwhatâs comfortableâ, someone had to design your fucking cargo shorts to be maximally comfy. Industrial design is art. Furniture design is art. Cooking is art.Â
You might be able to be a ~full human~ without being moved by interpretive wheelchair dance, but you canât be a comfortable or happy one without some kind of goddamn art. Â
That cuts both ways. âWhy do you need arts funding when we already have houses and clothes? Thatâs art to, you know.â
Okay. Iâm going to come at this from a perspective of a robot who does not understand why art even exists. I understand that that is probably not you, but these are reasons for art to exist that assume you do not give a damn about art.
Firstly: fine art creates utility for many other people. Whether or not you find any utility in it yourself, many people in your community do. I do not find sports particularly valuable- I honestly think thereâs not much in the world thatâs more boring than men running around on a field kicking a ball- but most other people seem to for some reason. If the other people in my community want to fund sports, I think they should receive funding even if Iâm individually against it. Because clearly, theyâre getting something out of it.
Secondly: Fine art employs a lot of members of the community who would otherwise be unemployable. The tormented artist stereotype has a grain of truth in it: many artists struggle with physical and mental illness. Having a career in art- like many other careers where youâre self-employed- means being able to work at your own pace. Having too many bad days in a row wonât get you fired. Funding the arts means giving disabled people the time and breathing room they need to begin a career on their own merits, without working themselves to death trying to hold down a more ânormalâ job. Â
Thirdly: art gives us a common language we can use to communicate, in the same way that science does. If I say a government policy is âOrwellianâ, for example, you know I mean âitâs dictatorialâ, with the heavy implication that it creates a surveillance state. If I say something is a âCinderella storyâ, you know I mean itâs an underdog story, presumably with a heavy element of rags-to-riches. Art creates connotations and shades of meaning that enrich and deepen human communication.
There are as many good reasons to fund art as there are to fund higher maths, honestly. Number theory isnât immediately useful to anyoneâs life, and yet I donât think youâd have any problem with the government funding mathematics departments.
I wish this stuff was phrased and argued better. Art funding is welfare for the middle class. Art does not solve problems. Art merely depicts them. People who say âthis is artâ mean a very narrow and positive thing. Imagine the NEA would stop in its current form, but instead that amount of money would fund creative writing classes and Bob Ross style painting classes for inner city children of working class parents. State-funded, state-sanctioned art benefits a narrow clique of an interconnected cultural elite. That cultural elite produces things that normal people donât buy. If anybody did actually spend money on their stuff, there wouldnât be the need for a NEA, would there? Are you afraid that only rich people could afford art and kickstarter would die or that, absent state funding, people would rather spend money the wrong art?
Imagine that amount of money spent on after hour soccer leagues, or bowling, or anything else that does not stink of top-down class warfare!
Imagine a world without the NEA. Would people still spend money on industrial design, on illustration, on fashion, on beauty? Would people like Ben Stahl, Dieter Rams, Bob Ross, Gianni Versace or Ludwig Mies van der Rohe still have existed?
In a world without state funding for the arts, would Interior Semiotics still have happened? Would we have Mattress Performance(Carry that Weight)? Would we still have gotten Merde dâArtiste? And if the answer is âyesâ, does cutting funding even matter?
âWeâre going to fund high art, and make the plebs pay for it!â
When someone says âpublicly funded artsâ what I hear is âthe aristocracy playing its internal signaling games, at everyoneâs expense, in spaces everyone else has to inhabitâ.
Arts in the valuable meaning of the word happens when people have free time. A materially prosperous society, with enough abundance that kickstarters and patreons and other voluntary crowdfunding bazaars are viable, and without deprivation and involuntary unemployment, seems like a way better way to get arts than funding well-connected cathedral insiders.
I believe that giving other peopleâs money to charity is not a virtue, even if it is a net positive.
I feel slightly bad for @earlgraytay here, because there are so many good arguments for funding art, but if you just admit that you want to fund political activism that is edgy and contrarian, but not ultimately well thought out or tied to a concrete policy, please donât call it art.
I donât believe @earlgraytay thinks that free markets wonât fund art ever, but it seems like the linked NYT author does. Half the people in the notes call it the âcathedralâ, and I canât tell if they are referring to Eric Raymond or that other guy. But the NYT article definitely gives the impression that a âcathedralâ, in both meanings of the word, is supposed to be a good thing.
Iâm gonna address âcathedralâ separately, butâŚ
What if I told you that taxes arenât charity, and public investment in the arts isnât charity, itâs a sound economic and cultural investment?
And that public investment in the arts in the US rarely takes the form of direct payments to individual artists anymore. Itâs much more likely to go to art associations, museums large and small, stage theaters, etc.
So cutting public investment in the arts wonât do a thing to take money from Rich Dude With Paintbrush. Itâll get rid of local summer art classes for kids who canât afford private lessons. Itâll get rid of the two or three field trips my elementary school could take to the local civic center for plays meant for kids - everything paid for but a couple of dollars, and there was a fund for if your parents couldnât afford that. Itâll get rid of the ability of the local museum where I grew up to have so many local shows and competitions for artists who werenât rich enough to buy their own gallery space.
Crowd funding individual artists only works if they get exposed enough to the art of others to say âHey, I Want To Try Doing Thatâ.
Yes: the arts can be used to maintain social privilege and economic disparity (Which is why the Religious Society of Friends had been so long opposed to art).
But art is also the doodle at the edge of your notebook page, or a drawing in chalk on the sidewalk. Even during the darkest periods in human history, people â and not just members of a specialized Artist class â have made art.
Authoritarian regimes throughout history have:
A) Tightly controlled the arts for use in State propaganda, and
B) Suppressed and punished artists for creating art outside the State-sanctioned parameters.
They donât do this because they are Big Meanie villains like you see on Saturday morning cartoons, and just want all their citizens to be Sad, and their nations to be Gloomy.
They do it because they fear the arts as an expression of the citizensâ voice, as a way to challenge the status-quo that keeps the authoritarian regimes in power.
That, right there, should be a clear enough reason why the arts are important, and should be defended.
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Mr. Rogers once sued the Klan.
[Image description: a cropped scan of a page from TV Guide, showing a segment of an interview with Mister Rogers (quote):
TVG: When do you get angry? Where does Mr. Rogers draw the line?
Mr. Rogers: I was incensed by what the Ku Klux Klan did recently. I am hardly a suing person, and yet that just got my goat. Members of the Klu Klux Klan were giving out a telephone number in a schoolyard, and these kids were calling the number. There was a Mister Rogers sound-alike voice on it with terribly racist messages. I just saw red. And so we sued them and we won. Maybe itâs strange, but the only thing that really angers me is something thatâs demeaning to somebody else.
TVG: If you had one message you
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Frankly? I donât think thatâs strange at all.
Mr. Rogers also gave the next town over from the Neighborhood of Make-Believe a Black Woman for a mayor (in 1975), and gave her a White Man to be her assistant.
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