> that the state > must support the arts Interesting issue. I suggest to take a look at the producers of Emmental cheese in Switzerland. Due to the escape of investors from unsafe currencies such as Dollar and Euro -- due to 'oh, so horrible' state debts, which are a kind of final phase of the economical crisis -- to the Swiss franc market (investors buy, Swiss banks and others sell) the price for this currency increases (the 'game' of supply and demand). So Emmental cheese becomes too expensive for the export. And hear what these Emmental producers justifiably (?) have to say: "We are about to loose this culture of Emmental cheese" ((News, ARD, German Television 1, August 4, 2011).
Absurd question? What's the difference of a state driven cultural critique-production called art compared to cheese called tradition and culture? Matze Schmidt ______________________________________________ SPECTRE list for media culture in Deep Europe Info, archive and help: http://post.in-mind.de/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/spectre
