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Fri, 13 Jan 1995 10:57:01 EST |
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I'm kind of shocked that people think that the soul of a
culture, to use Mario's phrase, can be so easily stifled
that a few hundred million dollars a year will bring it
crashing down around our heads! After all, aren't souls what
is durable after the material shell disintegrates? Let's
have more faith in our collective artistic impulses! Teach
your kids to draw, to play music, to look a pictures, to
write and read. Go to the museums and concerts.
And, don't give up on the politicians, that's facile
cynicism. Find what arguments will turn their heads. In your
own organizations, find the programs that are important to
your visitors, promote them, and ask them to tell
legislators that they *are* important.
All this, and pay your rent too...It's not easy being
artistic.
Eric Siegel
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