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Government must ensure that their major cities receive the financial support they need in order to thrive,because it is primarily in cities that a nation s cultural traditions are preserved and generated.
The speaker s claim is actually threeflod:ensuing the survival of large cities and ,in turn,that of cultural traditions ,is a proper function of government; government support is needed for our large dries and cultural traditions to survive and thrive;and cultural traditions are preserved and generated primarily in our large cities.I strongly disagree with all three claims.
First of all, subsidizing cultural traditions is not a proper role of government.Admittedly, certain objectives ,such as public health and safety,are so essential to the survival of large dries and of nations that government has a duty to ensure that they are met.However,these objectives should not extend tenuously to preserving cultural traditions.Moreover,government cannot possibly play an evenhanded role as cultural patron.Inadequate resources call for restrictions,priorities,and choices.It is unconscionable to relegate nomative decisions as to which cities or cultural traditions are more deserving,valuable,or needy to a few legislators, whose notions about culture might be misguided or unrepresentive of those of the general populace.Also,legislators are all too likely to make choices in favor of the cultural agendas of their home towns and states,or of lobbyists with the most money and influence.
Secondly,subsidizing cultural traditions is not a necessary role of government.A lack of private funding might justify an exception.However,cultural-by which i chiefly mean the fine arts-has always depended primarily on the patronage of private individuals and businesses, and not on the government . The Medics ,a powerful banking family of Renaissance iltaly,supported artists Michelangelo and Raphael,During the 20th Century the primarily source of cultural support were private foundations established by industrial magnates Carnegie, Mellon,Rockefeller and Getty.And tomorrow cultural support will come from our new technology and media moguls-including the likes of Ted Turner and Bill Gates, In short,philanthropy is alive and well today,and so government need not intervene to ensure that our cultural traditions are preserved and promoted.
Finally,and perhaps most importantly ,the speaker unfairly suggests that large cities serve as the primarily breeding ground and sanctuaries for a nation s cultual traditions.Today a nation s distinct cultural tradition-its folk art,crafts,traditional songs,customs and ceremonies-burgon instead in small towns and rural regions.Admittedly, our cities do serve as our centers for high art big cities are where we deposit,display,and boast the world s preeminent art ,architecture,and music,But big-city culture has little to do any-more with one nation s distinct cultural traditions.After all,modern cities are essentially mutilcultural stew pots; accordingly, by assisting large cities a government is actually helping to create a gobal culture as well to subsidize the traditions of other nation s cultures.
In the final analysis,government cannot phiosophically justify assisting large cities for the purpose of either promoting or preserving the nation s cultural traditions; nor is government assistance necessary toward these ends.Moreover ,assisting large cities would have little bearing on our distinct cultural traditions ,which abide elsewhere.
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