Some Artistic Healthcare
I prefer my government to be small and out of the way and fairly unobtrusive in the manner it interacts with my life. I understand the need for some taxes to fund some of the essentials (defense, law enforcement, the building and maintenance of some highways maybe) but otherwise I’d like to not be overly reminded of its existence. But now it looks like there’s a movement to insert a little bit more of the government’s view of things into the art world.
This is a perfect example of why I want the government to be small and unobtrusive. People always have an agenda, everyone does, and they will always find a way to try to further it. That is human nature. So from where I sit the problem isn’t so much that the NEA might be trying to do this, I think that is pretty much to be expected, the problem is that they have been provided with the tools to do this at all.
