[rollei_list] Re: OT Artistic Voices (was Re: OT Mapplethorpe)
- From: Eric Goldstein <egoldste@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: rollei_list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 8 Mar 2010 16:25:11 -0500
Your thoughts remind me of the recent protestations of a great American Tea
Partier, "get your government hands off my Medicare." It seems you have no
hesitation about being the arbiter of what is worthwhile and what is not.
OTOH I enjoy seeing our money being spent in ways which you and I find
loathsome via our American Democracy in action. You see I am a patriot.
As for the lefty leanings of Jeff Jacoby, that's alternative universe stuff.
Jacoby came from the untra Righty Boston Herald before the Glode made him
their Conservative in Residence, and his right of Attila The Hon rants over
the decades are legendary...
Eric Goldstein
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On Mon, Mar 8, 2010 at 4:03 PM, Marc James Small <marcsmall@xxxxxxxxxxx>wrote:
> At 03:56 PM 3/8/2010, Eric Goldstein wrote:
>
>> Marc -
>>
>> Relative to liberals gutting the NEA, you may want to read the editorial
>> writings of conservative columnist Jeff Jacoby on the subject:
>>
>> <http://www.bigeye.com/jj_nea.htm>http://www.bigeye.com/jj_nea.htm
>>
>>
>> But really the essential point for me is that it is important for
>> minority/non-mainstream voices to be heard in any culture/society, and
>> without a special effort to support them, they will not be heard. Whether
>> that support comes from public funds, private funds, or a combination of
>> both is a separate discussion entirely.
>>
>>
> First of all, Jacoby is yet another Leftie-Loonie pretending to be
> somewhere to the right of Karl Marx and failing miserably.
>
> Second, the government has not one bit of interest in funding anything
> dealing with the arts. Period and end of statement. The LEAST government
> at the LOWEST cost has just got to be the goal. I was shocked this morning
> to find that Virginia has is own Commission for the Arts -- and the buffoons
> in our General Assembly are closing down one of the two treatment centers
> for troubled adolescents in order to provide funding for this Commission.
> Treating troubled teens can be argued to be a legitimate interest of the
> government, but funding of the arts is not.
>
> Yeah, yeah, whoppee for divergent views and all that. Why not pay for
> these yourself, Eric, and leave my money alone? Again, to steal one dollar
> from someone who hates the works of Mapplethorpe et alii in order to pay for
> such works is a matter of gut-wrenching nausea. It is akin to stealing
> money from the pro-life folks to pay for government-funded abortions those
> folks see as murder. Or taxing a pacifist to pay for the military. None of
> these are right.
>
> Again, abolish the NEA, and do so yesterday. It has no place in the USian
> polity.
>
>
> Marc
>
>
>
> msmall@xxxxxxxxxxxx
> Cha robh bàs fir gun ghràs fir!
>
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