11-15-2018, 01:38 PM
(This post was last modified: 11-15-2018, 01:38 PM by Eric the Green.)
(11-14-2018, 01:00 PM)Bill the Piper Wrote:(11-14-2018, 11:19 AM)Hintergrund Wrote:(10-30-2018, 08:42 PM)pbrower2a Wrote: When life gets stale, the arts are the solution. Man does not live by bread alone,
I'd have thought the current problem was: Many people don't get enough bread!
True! That's why we need economic growth to bake more bread. Well-fed people are more likely to be interested in art. Maslow was right here!
The contrary point to that is that in earlier times than today, most people were poor. Today, whatever inequalities may exist, most people are richer than most people were hundreds of years ago. And yet the art produced by earlier civilizations was vastly superior to the trash that passes for art today. Economic growth seems to have, if anything, a negative effect on art. What counts is whether society values the arts or not. Our society values tech and money over art.