Re: Cap's bad old days :)

blah b b blah (jrovira@juno.com)
Thu, 25 Mar 1999 17:22:42 -0500 (EST) 

But they're not.  If all the arts went down the tubes, we'd be
impoverished spiritually and emotionally, but we'd survive.  And artists
would still be around, doing their thing in whatever way we could.

But if corporate America goes down the tubes, we no longer have
electricity for our homes, food on our tables, gas in our cars, or
education for our children.  It's a matter of knowing which side our
bread is buttered on.  

If GM goes bankrupt, people are hurt in much more immediate and serious
ways than if Mapplethorpe's photos don't get published.

Jim

"The written word is a power of such magnitude that only pedants would
try to reduce it to rules.  Or the French."

--F.K.

On Thu, 25 Mar 1999 07:58:18 -0800 (PST) Florie Sommers
<writeflorie@hotmail.com> writes:
>Matt-
>
>I agree that there should be equal funding (if not more) for the arts 
>and corp. bail-outs. They should also be seen as equally important to 
>the county. 
>
>Florie
>
>>From: Matthew_Stevenson@baylor.edu
>>Reply-To: bananafish@lists.nyu.edu
>>To: bananafish@lists.nyu.edu
>>Subject: Re: Cap's bad old days :)
>>Date: Thu, 25 Mar 1999 09:05:44 -0600
>>
>>Camille sides with Ms. Virginia Woolf.  Artists need a "room of their 
>
>own" in
>>which to practice and perfect their genius.
>>Jim takes the side of a professor I once had who pointed out that 
>Chaucer
>>never had this "room of his own", nor did Hemingway.
>>
>>I for one feel that if the government is going to spend millions 
>bailing out
>>corporations and farmers it shouldn't begrudge the huddled masses a 
>federally
>>funded arts community...Matt Stevenson
>>
>>On Thu, 25 Mar 1999 16:18:28 +1100 verona_beach@geocities.com 
>(Camille
>>Scaysbrook) wrote:
>>
>>>
>>>Jim wrote:
>>>> Talent -- no, genius -- finds a way in any system, and more often 
>than
>>>> not it's a pretty difficult way.
>>>
>>>Yeah ... so what happens to the 90% who fall along the way? Even 
>geniuses
>>>get sick and tired and need to pay the rent. It's a very 
>over-romanticised
>>>view of genius for you to take - more and more I realise it's not 
>what 
>you
>>>know but who; there's so much tosh that gets out there, gets 
>published, and
>>>somehow finds its way into millions of hands that sometimes I think 
>that
>>>true talent - that is, originality, danger and innovation - is the 
>direct
>>>opposite of an advantage.
>>>
>>>Camille
>>>verona_beach@geocities.com
>>>@ THE ARTS HOLE http://www.geocities.com/Hollywood/Theater/6442
>>>@ THE INVERTED FOREST http://www.angelfire.com/pa/invertedforest
>>
>>
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