Does the state have a responsibility to its artisan community?

Question

Does the state have a responsibility to its artists and artisan community????

Answer 1

This is an interesting question. Certainly an artist by nature is one who is there to champion the individual over the state so if the state were to be the provider for an artist would he not be feeding a bulldog that is biting at its feet? Of course Plato, in The Repubic, wanted to not only eschew but banish artists from the city state of Athens as artists were the ones engaging in creations that were further from reality than even flesh and blood is to the ideas (the theories of form) that were the inception of all. He thought that an artist and his stories aimed at getting an emotional reaction degraded us from the logical, philosophical creatures that we were meant to be. As a poet and novelist and a student of classical literature I feel that the government owes every proven writer of serious literature a stipened or even a full minimum waged salary that will alow him to devote more of his time toward works that enhance thought and culture that a country prides itself as possessing and as a means of showing that even when the bulldog bites at the foot of a country that country is man enough to not despise his dog, and more feeds it and nourishes it.

Steven Sills Project Gutenberg edition of Tokyo To Tijuana: Gabriele Departing America at http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/webbin/gutbook/lookup?num=12733
Corpus of A Siam Mosquito at http://digital.library.upenn.edu/webbin/gutbook/lookup?num=5176
An American Papyrus published initially by the New Poets Series, Towson MD. Republished digitally at http://www.digital.library.upenn.edu/webbin/gutbook/lookup?num=4545



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Answer 2

Wish it did, but I don't see that happening. Their going to spend money on school luch programs or the military.. You did mean a financial responsibilty?