Some people flagged my “cretinous cow” comment above. Whoever you are you probably don’t realize it’s run-of-the-mill bear/cow banter. Not meant as a personal insult.
Mea culpa. I don’t know what came over me. It won’t happen again. I blame it on insufficient caffeine. 
Dammit cow, I worked hard to come up with that alliteration.
Feel free to call me a cretinous catheterized cow, as long as it’s in good fun.
it’s too late, the moment has passed…
OK, you unctuous unbathed ursine.
Nice work. #bantastic
No, it wouldn’t. The funding may be too high (massive?) or too low, but for a popular sport with heritage significance, the mere fact that not everyone enjoys it is nothing to get bruised over. 
No argument from me that it’s an issue worth debating, but the question of how well or how badly the government is handling its culture portfolio is not the same question as whether or not the government should have a culture portfolio at all.
I’m including sports in the definition of culture, obviously. And still wondering whether you want to stop taxpayer funding of the Olympics. If they can’t support themselves… 
Of course America is not homogeneous, but the tendency seems to be stronger there than anywhere else, even England.
The article you cite is about blocking the export of a painting, not seizing it from its rightful owner. Western governments aren’t into seizing artworks these days, except when rightful ownership is in question e.g. Nazi loot, or when the obscenity meter goes up to 11.
Anyway, how good or bad is the law? is not the same question as should there be a law?
You’re mixing up two different points. I didn’t say ancient Egypt was democratic.
Oh, I see. I didn’t get a “the gov can be involved” vibe from your posts, but whatever. Thanks for clarifying that you and @Dr_Milker disagree about whether or not the government should be involved at all in culture. You just “feel uneasy” about it, as you said earlier. Okay.
If we want to continue the discussion, we should probably ask what’s specifically wrong with the current Minister’s work.
Definitely. A certain Chinese artist who’s popular in the West comes to mind. I think even many people who disagree with how the National Palace Museum is run are still glad it’s not selling its rare paintings and calligraphy to that guy, no matter how interesting he is.
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Maybe one day they will call it the Lisa Cheng defense: I was just obeying natural law! 
Ah, well, maybe he’s onto something. 
Naw man, you guys are just more Minnesota.
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Isn’t that where Doc lives?
doc who?
I don’t know about this. If it’s so popular why did it almost go away and why does it need government funding?
At some point sports have all changed to adapt and or gone extinct. I just think there are now superior games to play and spectate.
I’ve played in different baseball leagues here and it’s pretty much self sufficient. Players and teams pay to be in. Teams mostly co-own if not have theirs own land they take care of to practice and play. Equipment is privately funded by players or sponsors. Higher up leagues have cash tournaments. I don’t see why Gaelic can’t be the same if not have enough people to make it professional and funded by private organizations to make a league.
There are of course none monetary benefits to the community but those are basically entirely for people who like the game. I doubt the game itself improves the economy of the local community to even out the costs of government money spent.
Which leads to the next point of the olympics. People aren’t too thrilled about hosting it now seeing that it doesn’t benefit the places they host as much as people wanted. And some are stuck with ghost towns and a unusable stadium they can’t afford to maintain. So the hosting question for me is debatable. But funding a team is for sure something needed as they’re doing a service to the country and not entirely for the sport itself.
I know what it is. I just said it has produced certain stupid laws. And it has led to art seizures in the past. Not that this particular case was a seizure.
Vacation over!
U.S has the National Endowment for the Arts and the National Endowment for the humanities.
Some say Sesame Street has been turned into a political propaganda machine.
That’s because they consider that as “real culture”. It is pure snobbery. How many times do you know of Taiwanese kids being forced or heavily persuaded by their parents to play the piano or violin as compared to the electric guitar or drums.
Many people especially the government and parents here have a very narrow view of what culture is ie Classical music is real culture and Hip Hop is not, or heavy metal is not…
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Hip hop does not get arts funding in the US. Classical music does.
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What a load of crap. Do you have proof about your great art movements or you’re just citing from your ass?
You and @Dr_Milker have extremely twisted world views.
I see why you would have this opinion if you don’t know enough about art and art history. If you question this, I would just not talk about something you know nothing about. The cultural minister didn’t give you a proper art education lol
I also notice you say what a load of crap as a reply when you can’t argue against it.
Let me break it down for you. Shortest I can.
Most of the art in Europe is was sanctioned by the church. Artists drew religious things. Eventually growing class of people that made money in trade and such like the Medici tool interest in art and began to sponsor artist. Humanists who painted man and nature before god. You literally see each movement with the same pattern after. If you have time, read about it so you don’t sound so uncultured and ignorant.
In the east. Most art was also originally religious. Wood cuts were printed for religious reasons. Japanese wood cut painting began to become popular along with other arts like acting etc when merchant class in edo period in edo aka modern day Tokyo. These people began to spend money on art and it flourished giving us works like the wave by Hokusai. It would influence the works into the mingei period where Europeans began seeing Japanese paintings for the first time. The artists there were shocked and never seen it. It began wildly popular and the artist there basically copied it and made the art nouveau style.
In short. People don’t give a shit about art and culture when they can’t affors to care about it. It’s not a big surprise.