I just saw Helen Mirren in Shakespeare's The Tempest -- highly recommended -- and was reminded of a great line from the loutish Stephano. It makes a telling comment on the popular notion that thanks to the internet we no longer need to pay musicians:
STEPHANO: "This will prove a brave kingdom to me, where I shall have my music for nothing."
I can't say it worked out so well form him, either.
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Divert US military spending to the artworld and the world becomes a paradise.
...as long as you don't mind having your art censored by the dominant violent extremist worldview.
I'm not sure Dave was suggesting funding military art as such, but rather different funding priorities altogether, the effect of which might be to alter, gradually, the addiction to violence.
The military is by definition artless. I was suggesting, of course, that we might fire (or indict) all the warmongers, establish a department of peace, love, and beauty; and turn the Pentagon into the world's largest art gallery -- for starters.
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