What business does government have to choose the culture you experience? This is like the idea that it is perfectly fine that government funds all science research. It's this really what government is there to do?
It's great that you like it, but what if I don't like the culture/science it spends my tax dollars on? How can I like something that people are forced to pay for, whether they like it or not?
I think government is already terrible - spending other people's money inefficiently on pensions, wars, surveillance, mis-education, big pharma, etc - I don't think the arts are anything it should be funding. What is the difference between funding the arts and propaganda? How is this not simply about driving whatever agendas government is promoting?
I have so many issues with the idea that government is a benefit to us, the idea of it sponsoring the arts is only indicative of the already massive overreach it has. And then to cheer it's actions, happy that government forcibly extracts more from the people it purports to serve! It boggles the mind.
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