Snowflake Challenge - day 3
Challenge #3
In your own space, Scream Into the Void. Get it all out.
I don’t even know where to start!
There are so many things that I could rant about, I could be here until next week.
I can only comment on what’s going on in my own country, the UK, and there is a lot going on; the cost of living crisis, the country being paralysed by strike action, and our national health service being decimated by our useless conservative government...
So, I’m going to rant about something quite current,and specific, and something that is typical of our current government - their contempt of creative arts. In recent years, they have downgraded creative subjects in the national curriculum, and during the pandemic, our Chancellor glibly and famously stated that people in the entertainment industry, people who had devoted their entire lives to their art, should just ‘retrain and get other jobs’.
This week, the then chancellor, our now Prime Minister, a numbers man through and through - god help us -- stated that maths should be compulsorily taught to kids until age 18.
What about those of us who have no intention of going into STEM subjects? As one of those kids who hated maths and never flourished at it, and have never used any mathematical concepts beyond basic arithmetic, I am disgusted at our government’s total disregard to creativity and the creative arts generally.
It calls to mind a Facebook post I made a couple of years ago during the height of the pandemic, and I stand by every word I said:
‘I know the NHS has been keeping us alive, but who do the Government, in their 'wisdom', think has been keeping us sane during the last twelve months?
They don’t think art and creativity is important? Well, let them live in a world without music, literature, fine art, magazines, books, opera, dance, website design, video games, fashion design, interior design, landscape design, architecture, illustration, product design, graphic design, poetry, sculpture, greetings cards, TV, movies, photography, animation, hair and cosmetic design or jewellery.
Let them live in a world that is utterly grey and joyless, because apparently that’s what they want, and definitely what they deserve.’
Ok, rant over!
Here is a wonderful rant from Simon Pegg who comments on this matter far more eloquently - and colourfully - than I ever could!!
In your own space, Scream Into the Void. Get it all out.
I don’t even know where to start!
There are so many things that I could rant about, I could be here until next week.
I can only comment on what’s going on in my own country, the UK, and there is a lot going on; the cost of living crisis, the country being paralysed by strike action, and our national health service being decimated by our useless conservative government...
So, I’m going to rant about something quite current,and specific, and something that is typical of our current government - their contempt of creative arts. In recent years, they have downgraded creative subjects in the national curriculum, and during the pandemic, our Chancellor glibly and famously stated that people in the entertainment industry, people who had devoted their entire lives to their art, should just ‘retrain and get other jobs’.
This week, the then chancellor, our now Prime Minister, a numbers man through and through - god help us -- stated that maths should be compulsorily taught to kids until age 18.
What about those of us who have no intention of going into STEM subjects? As one of those kids who hated maths and never flourished at it, and have never used any mathematical concepts beyond basic arithmetic, I am disgusted at our government’s total disregard to creativity and the creative arts generally.
It calls to mind a Facebook post I made a couple of years ago during the height of the pandemic, and I stand by every word I said:
‘I know the NHS has been keeping us alive, but who do the Government, in their 'wisdom', think has been keeping us sane during the last twelve months?
They don’t think art and creativity is important? Well, let them live in a world without music, literature, fine art, magazines, books, opera, dance, website design, video games, fashion design, interior design, landscape design, architecture, illustration, product design, graphic design, poetry, sculpture, greetings cards, TV, movies, photography, animation, hair and cosmetic design or jewellery.
Let them live in a world that is utterly grey and joyless, because apparently that’s what they want, and definitely what they deserve.’
Ok, rant over!
Here is a wonderful rant from Simon Pegg who comments on this matter far more eloquently - and colourfully - than I ever could!!
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