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« on: February 27, 2007, 10:13:57 PM »
Kevin, re your first point, arguably maybe music is sublime and therefore entirely beyond money? ie it's SO valuable, it's outside the scope of monetary reward or support. But i guess pending The Revolution, if no one supports it, it doesn't get too far.
'Another time' is hardly what it's cracked up to be - they killed Socrates for his gambling, fighting and shooting his mouth off, drunk down at the Legion. Philosophers get less support than artists, and can only exist in academia anyway. And 'support' five hundred years ago meant painting what you were told to paint. I think being an artist has always sucked.