04-17-2022, 11:32 PM
(This post was last modified: 04-17-2022, 11:33 PM by Eric the Green.)
The earlier aristocratic and religious societies hired and supported artists. I suppose the rulers thought that art would be good propaganda and glorify them. But we today have benefited from what the artists and musicians of the past created.
It was good that we vested more rulership in the common people. But a society is most-of-all revered for the art it has produced. Our society today produces almost nothing of value. If rulership is to be vested in the people, that means that the people must invest in the arts. We need to value and elevate our tastes. That means peoples' governments helping in this education and support, not just the market. Leaving everything to the market to determine has been an abject and total failure. It is a ideology that urgently needs to be junked and debunked.
It was good that we vested more rulership in the common people. But a society is most-of-all revered for the art it has produced. Our society today produces almost nothing of value. If rulership is to be vested in the people, that means that the people must invest in the arts. We need to value and elevate our tastes. That means peoples' governments helping in this education and support, not just the market. Leaving everything to the market to determine has been an abject and total failure. It is a ideology that urgently needs to be junked and debunked.