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[David Casseres]

stencil sez

>>Diana York Blaine <dyb0001 at jove.acs.unt.edu> posits
>>
>>[...].  Finally, the big question
>>pertains to why this country full of yahoos who eschew art and art museums
>>(and not because these insititutions are painfully racist, sexist,
>>classist and homophobic, though they are) can get it up to worry about
>>something like Piss Christ.  They never would have seen it anyway.  Most
>>of you probably haven't.  [...]
>>
>Because they were being told to pay for it, sight unseen. The NEA
>appropriation was the topic, and the perception is that when the
>composition of that board of bureaucratic Lorenzos changes, we could
>be subsidizing a Larry Flynt.  Sauce for the houynhnm.  The money
>could be better used, say for George Lincoln's Day ceremonies in
>Piggly Wiggly parking lots, with latex handshakes between the NRA and
>the Gay Alliance.

Come on, stencil.  If that were really a good reason for attacking the 
NEA, the only honest approach would be to show how evil it is to fund 
(let's say) a local grass-roots theater company or a youth symphony 
orchestra or a writers' workshop -- to mention a few more typical 
NEA-funded activities.

And if that were really a good reason for not funding the arts with Tax 
Dollars (just paid mine, lots of them used to murder people, wish a lot 
more would go to Piss Christ), then you should really be ready to kiss 
off almost all of the great art of human history, since almost all of it 
was funded by some period equivalent of Tax Dollars, administered by some 
sort of bureacratic Lorenzos.  That's how art happens.

No, the anti-NEA campaign is a pure Yahoo exercise, and actually I'm sure 
if you search your heart and your brain you'll find you know better than 
to cheer it on.



Cheers,
David