The Olympics and the Arts
OK, let me first say that in the UK the arts community has had billions of pounds pumped into it over the last few years.
Fair enough it's true that the Olympics are going to cost us a lot of money, but now the arts community are complaining that funding will be directed away from them and towards sport instead.
But sports are really quite overlooked here, at least on a local junior level. Compared to other countries we suck at sport, even the ones we invented! And the sports community (excluding big national and county teams) has suffered from under investment for years. If you want to start painting, making sculptures, acting or singing there are thousands of government funded courses you can do all over the country. But what if you wanna do sports? Well excluding the odd UK football/soccer club here and there you are severely limited, and most clubs are owned by private investors and sponsors, with money coming from them instead of the government.
So after gobbling up billions of pounds of tax payers money why is the arts community now being so ungrateful and stuck up about another community getting some of 'their' money?
If you ask me it's because of the ungrateful, stuck up, snobbish, pretentious, 'we're better than everyone else because we achieve with our mind's instead of our bodies' nature of the people who control the arts. I know that's a generalisation, but unfortunately it's valid because it's generally true, at least in my experience. There's also the fact they are bitter about losing some of their precious cash, although they will never admit it.
They have had billions of pounds spent on them over recent years to encourage achievement. So how can they have a problem with some money now being spent on other people who feel passionate about what they do, and who want to achieve? A lot of work goes into sport, especially when you consider most sports men and women need to know the science of what goes on inside their body when they compete. And that's on top of the physical training and exertion.
And all that comes before the argument that sports could even be considered an art. And maybe investing more in sport will help tackle the growing obesity problem we are dealing with here.
Fair enough running 100m in a super quick time doesn't appear require a truckload of intelligence, but neither does banging a nail into a piece of wood and calling it modern art.
Fair enough it's true that the Olympics are going to cost us a lot of money, but now the arts community are complaining that funding will be directed away from them and towards sport instead.
But sports are really quite overlooked here, at least on a local junior level. Compared to other countries we suck at sport, even the ones we invented! And the sports community (excluding big national and county teams) has suffered from under investment for years. If you want to start painting, making sculptures, acting or singing there are thousands of government funded courses you can do all over the country. But what if you wanna do sports? Well excluding the odd UK football/soccer club here and there you are severely limited, and most clubs are owned by private investors and sponsors, with money coming from them instead of the government.
So after gobbling up billions of pounds of tax payers money why is the arts community now being so ungrateful and stuck up about another community getting some of 'their' money?
If you ask me it's because of the ungrateful, stuck up, snobbish, pretentious, 'we're better than everyone else because we achieve with our mind's instead of our bodies' nature of the people who control the arts. I know that's a generalisation, but unfortunately it's valid because it's generally true, at least in my experience. There's also the fact they are bitter about losing some of their precious cash, although they will never admit it.
They have had billions of pounds spent on them over recent years to encourage achievement. So how can they have a problem with some money now being spent on other people who feel passionate about what they do, and who want to achieve? A lot of work goes into sport, especially when you consider most sports men and women need to know the science of what goes on inside their body when they compete. And that's on top of the physical training and exertion.
And all that comes before the argument that sports could even be considered an art. And maybe investing more in sport will help tackle the growing obesity problem we are dealing with here.
Fair enough running 100m in a super quick time doesn't appear require a truckload of intelligence, but neither does banging a nail into a piece of wood and calling it modern art.