{"id":34973,"date":"2018-02-03T01:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-02-03T06:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=34973"},"modified":"2018-01-14T09:15:40","modified_gmt":"2018-01-14T14:15:40","slug":"qotd-subsidising-the-arts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2018\/02\/03\/qotd-subsidising-the-arts\/","title":{"rendered":"QotD: Subsidising the arts"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>&#8230; the Luvvies justify tax subsidy of The Arts by saying, \u201cWe can&#8217;t call ourselves a civilized country without opera houses, ballet companies, etc., etc.\u201d. Well, perhaps not. But can we call ourselves a civilized country when we have to be <em>forced<\/em> to pay for these things against our will? Does that not then make us an uncivilized country <em>pretending<\/em> to be civilized, aping true civilization, a sort of cargo-culture? It&#8217;s not our culture at all, spontaneously emerging through voluntary action, it&#8217;s someone else&#8217;s, laid on the top of our real civilization like fancy icing on (as they might have it) mud. Isn&#8217;t that worse?<\/p>\n<p>Sam Duncan, commenting on David Thompson&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/davidthompson.typepad.com\/davidthompson\/2013\/10\/elsewhere-100.html?cid=6a00d83451675669e2019affe30afe970d#comment-6a00d83451675669e2019affe30afe970d\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Elsewhere (100)&#8221;, <em>davidthompson.com<\/em><\/a>, 2013-10-09.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230; the Luvvies justify tax subsidy of The Arts by saying, \u201cWe can&#8217;t call ourselves a civilized country without opera houses, ballet companies, etc., etc.\u201d. Well, perhaps not. But can we call ourselves a civilized country when we have to be forced to pay for these things against our will? Does that not then make [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35193,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[57,10,41],"tags":[102,86,262,793],"class_list":["post-34973","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-humour","category-liberty","category-quotations","tag-art","tag-criticism","tag-culture","tag-subsidies"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/favicon.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-965","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34973","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34973"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34973\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34974,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34973\/revisions\/34974"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34973"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34973"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34973"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}