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<blockquote data-quote="GreyLord" data-source="post: 7828131" data-attributes="member: 4348">Possibly...But the world would be a FAR lesser place without art and artists.Many of the writers and artists that have impacted us, history, and how we think about things were those same starving artists.&nbsp; The impact they have had on the world was not commensurate with the amount of money they made or living in style, rather many struggled with poverty and died relatively young.While they died young but their impact was large, many wealthy individuals who made a LOT of money are mainly remembered for the tyrannical nature of how they made that wealth and the bad effects they had on the world (and even more today with the concern of climate change upon us).So...yes...starving artists have existed since BEFORE the Renaissance and no one is really obligated to support them...Yet, ironically, those same starving artists probably have had a more positive impact on the world in the long run than the powerful and wealthy who have started wars and other such things in the pursuit of wealth and power. In our modern age the dream has to overcome these violent and terrible tendencies to become more of a higher individual in a better society, but yes...nature still exists and survival of the meanest and toughest still is something many hold too as being their path of choice.&nbsp; Nature still exists...and some still feel what nature is and how it does things is the best way to proceed.I don't necessarily think that may be the BEST course of action at all times, as one could also see nature as something we have struggled to exceed and conquer, putting down the natural emotional state of man in pursuit of something higher and more evolved.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="GreyLord, post: 7828131, member: 4348"] Possibly... But the world would be a FAR lesser place without art and artists. Many of the writers and artists that have impacted us, history, and how we think about things were those same starving artists. The impact they have had on the world was not commensurate with the amount of money they made or living in style, rather many struggled with poverty and died relatively young. While they died young but their impact was large, many wealthy individuals who made a LOT of money are mainly remembered for the tyrannical nature of how they made that wealth and the bad effects they had on the world (and even more today with the concern of climate change upon us). So...yes...starving artists have existed since BEFORE the Renaissance and no one is really obligated to support them... Yet, ironically, those same starving artists probably have had a more positive impact on the world in the long run than the powerful and wealthy who have started wars and other such things in the pursuit of wealth and power. In our modern age the dream has to overcome these violent and terrible tendencies to become more of a higher individual in a better society, but yes...nature still exists and survival of the meanest and toughest still is something many hold too as being their path of choice. Nature still exists...and some still feel what nature is and how it does things is the best way to proceed. I don't necessarily think that may be the BEST course of action at all times, as one could also see nature as something we have struggled to exceed and conquer, putting down the natural emotional state of man in pursuit of something higher and more evolved. [/QUOTE]

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