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and get Teal jobs. Perhaps we should knock off this silly notion that we are trying to create a culture and knuckle down to some honest work. “Hello, welcome to the Burger Pit. I used to sing opera but our funding was cut.”
This is not the first time this “fig leaf’ mentality has reared its ugly head in a society. Many Renaissance writers, painters and sculptors, who are considered masters today, were subjected to vehement censorship and scrutiny in their own day. Works were later either destroyed or painted over because they were considered “offensive.” Censorship is quite a tricky subject. Once turned loose it tends to take on its own character with all of the stick waving, teeth gnashing, frantic, outof-control screaming and shouting of a mob. Most of the people do not even know what they are yelling about. Where would censorship stop and who would say so? Even our own great Mark Twain is, at this moment, in the process of being banned from our schools.
I may even agree with Mr. Frazier on the works he finds offensive but I certainly do not agree with his solution. The amount of “wasted taxpayer money” he is talking about is less that one dollar per taxpayer a year. If one hundredth of one of my pennies goes to one of these “fringe artists” then so be it. I do not have to go to see their work if it offends me. At least I know I can go see a Brahms Concietto or one of Shakespeare’s plays which are being supported by the rest of my dollar. Our culture is having a hard enough time as it is. The idea of having to live without the solace of the arts in unacceptable.
Some people specialize in creating things and some people specialize in stopping things. If those who prefer to stop things are turned loose on the arts, then we are in for some exciting times. Perhaps we will call it “Renoir meets Godzilla.”
BILL WATSON
Washington, Va.
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