Commenting that the possible loss of the local library would mean your town would be made a desert gives a causal link between reading and global warming that is difficult to grasp ...but when a local authority cuts its arts budget by 100% then perhaps the allegory is appropriate.
Without the arts, a town or city can soon become a cultural desert. Without the arts, how can the creative process take place? From where can anyone draw inspiration?
And if there's no creative process, then there's little chance of innovation. Less innovation inevitably leads to less business success, leading to less employment, less tax revenue, an even bigger deficit and so on.
Of course, you could take to the streets. But 20 people with placards can be ignored (300,000 people can be ignored) so why don't we try a different form of activism?
Form a facebook group and page against the cuts, ask people to declare they won't vote for the party, councillor, MP or MEP that condones such savage cuts then publicise the hell out of it.
-- Steve
Location:Bath Rd,,United Kingdom
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