11 Jul
2005
11 Jul
'05
7:25 p.m.
On Sun, 10 Jul 2005, Lyle Bickley wrote:
Clearly then you're not one of them. I refer to an enumerable list
of virulent reactionary activists working hard and often
extra-legally to push the U.S. (particularly) in a specific and
narrow direction.
There are plenty of responsible businesses. There are clearly
plenty of christian-persuasion people doing wonderful things in
all realms; vast numbers of the civil-rights movement, for
example, it goes without saying.
My emphasis was on right-wing extremists, and sicko loonies; those
that want to control other peoples behaviours for their own gains.
However the corporate- and christian- subcategories are
particularly virulent at the moment, and pointful to their
behavior.
You have my apologies if it sounded like I meant otherwise.
Anyways my point was that largely, the funding of open and
ideologically-untethered arts is not valued highly by the
powers-that-be at the moment.
Public funding
for the arts has been reduced to a practical zero
by right-wing corporate goons, sicko christian loonies, and the
dwindling resources that remain go to fewer and fewer recipients.
There are some of us "corporate goons, sicko christian loonies" who do a lot
of volunteer work for and have donated generously to the Computer History
Museum