To: rabidralph
The arts should be self-funding. If it's good it will thrive. If not, let it die. Or let private donors fund it.
To: RAT Patrol
I agree. In other kinds of polity -- monarchies and aristocracies, for example -- governments may have good taste, at least some of the time. But bureaucrats subject to political pressure in a democracy will almost never favor good art.
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