Saturday 31 January 2015

AUSTRALIAN CONSERVATIVES SUPPORT THE ARTS

I can only hope and pray that some wealthy Conservative Australians take note and heed this advice:

"Further, the film’s success reminds us that investors on the right are leaving a hunk of change on the table. This may ultimately be the most important takeaway from Eastwood’s movie. Right-tilting investors are way overdue to establish film and television companies with conservative or libertarian leanings. The problem here, of course, is that conservatives have long been suspicious of culture. Some of this is dumb prejudice, but much of the skepticism makes sense. The arts have been dominated by the Left for so long that it’s difficult to see them as anything but treacherous. But right-wing investors should get over themselves. The local symphony is not the only cultural endeavor worth supporting. Popular culture is a far more powerful way of reaching the public, and films, as American Sniper proves, remain one of the most potent—and remunerative—of those avenues." 

http://www.city-journal.org/2015/bc0130rs.html

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