As long as people in a society are hungry or out of work or lack the
... Thus to say that Art must take the back stage when the situation of people in a society is far from hunky-dory is well intentioned, but it suffers from misplaced priorities. ... It is the priority of the State as well as the society to keep the numbers of destitute, the unemployed and the unskilled at a minimum. ... Thus it is upon society to support the Arts, because without it a society could end up breeding deterministic, entirely objective automatons - a society without any Romantics, a society without an appreciation for its lineage. ... And in the present day context, when Society faces no great danger of Anhilation, the onus is upon the society itself to protect the great works of yore as well as promote Art to the fullest.