File puptcrit/puptcrit.1003, message 318


From: FLEXITOON-AT-aol.com
Date: Sat, 13 Mar 2010 13:40:59 EST
To: puptcrit-AT-puptcrit.org
Subject: Re: [Puptcrit] SUPPORT of the arts/Slow wheels of government


Beautifully put, Alan.
However, the RIGHT (who are so often wrong) would say "who's job is it to  
take care of that grasshopper?"  ("Are there no prisons? Are there no  
workhouses?")
Craig
 
 
 
 
In a message dated 3/13/2010 1:38:14 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,  
alangregorycook-AT-msn.com writes:

Thanks,  Rolande for enduring the Funding Cuts hearing process. At City 
Council  Meetings it is not unusual to see Council Members reading magazines or 
even  dozing while "important matters" are supposedly being discussed. They 
may  already be overloaded with sensory input or be merely incompetant. It 
is not  any different when you work up to Congress or the Senate.

While feedng  the homeless, providing healthcare, etc. are important, so is 
feeding  curiosity, educating the ignorant, and providing the foundation 
the Arts  provide for being complete human beings with purpose and 
understanding, with  exhilaration for life and its interconnections.

Aesop's Fable, THE ANT  & THE GRASSHOPPER can be inerpreted in TWO ways. 
The traditional view was  that the Ant was a noble, hard worker and the 
Grasshopper was a slacker (as if  his musical talents had no value). A more 
truthful interpretation: the  Grasshopper could add something to our lives besides 
 drudgery.


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