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We all have daily missions to accomplish:
- to write a blog a day,
- to be a great husband or wife,
- to get a new job,
or
- It could be to get President Elect Obama to add a Secretary of the Arts to his cabinet.
Quincy Jones has set out to help drive the arts to new heights.
Are you interested in joining Quincy in his mission? Then sign his petition.
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We artists (musicians, dancers, actors, poets…etc.) are some of the biggest champions of individual expression and personal freedom. Yet somehow, we think it’s okay to create a cabinet position to impose our values on the rest of the country.
This is no different from a nasty special interest group lobbying government to get some preferential treatment. It’s unfair to everyone else who has to support government growth with their wallets.
Constitutionally, it doesn’t matter whether we “like” the idea or not, because this sort of thing has no place in a free society. You and I are as free to embrace art as we are to reject it. The fact that something like this can draw so much support so easily shows just how much our understanding of the role of government has deteriorated.
Think critically before jumping on the bandwagon.
Posted by: waffleflip | January 19, 2009 at 12:30 AM