Re: support for the arts in the US

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From: Curtis Yarvin
Date: Sat, 12 Dec 1992 18:16

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In article <tg9dhtk@zola.esd.sgi.com> rmr@sgi.com (Robert M. Reimann) writes:
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>Humor aside, the obvious fault in reasoning here 
>is to equate financial support with "institutionalization",

The difference is only in degree; and no real line can be drawn,
so it is very easy for the one to slide into the other.

>Are you therefore also against public funding of 
>libraries, because of the power librarians are given
>over selection of titles?

No; library sales don't have much effect on book profits.  I'm
unhappy about public funding of libraries for two reasons:  that
libraries are not a public good, and that public libraries make
it impossible for private libraries to exist.

If you want poor people to be able to read, you should give
them money - not libraries.

c

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Subject: Re: support for the arts in the US
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