IELTES ESAY 3

Some people think the government should spend more money on public services rather than waste money on arts (i.e. music and printing).To what extent do you agree or disagree?

In globalization age, art is the keystones in process of increasing interconnectedness between regions and countries, is the voice of people’s inner feelings. Artists serve as historians documenting life on canvass, sculpture, or songs. It is not whimsical to say that arts worth a fair share out of governments’ annual budgets. However, some unwilling throats disregard that government must not squander over such things but rather on public services. There are many evidences found in support of both stances.

Undeniably, art has been present in human life since the archaic time and has made many contributions to human civilization bridging the distance, however far it is, to bring people closer to one another; beautifying and immortalizing people, places and events. A masterpiece of art serves to put the name of one’s country on the world’s map making his country’s identity, culture and features known worldwide. Additionally, art is a mental shelter for individual to fall back on to express innermost feelings, everlasting aspiration, joyfulness as well as despairs. This is more pronounced in the scurry and scramble of modern life in which time is too valuable for people to be together. So to say, art is a mental food indispensable to human beings and the necessity of injecting money to arts is undeniable.

On the other hand, the arguments against government funding for art are comprehensible. It has been scientifically proven that human beings psychologically bear a pyramid of needs, of which one level is only desirable after the level below it is satisfied. The arts occupy a higher scale on the pyramid than physiological needs. In some countries, in particular, not- yet well-developed ones, in which transportation system and communication infrastructure are not well-integrated, healthcare and education system, the best investment in future generation, are not yet well-attended; channeling money into improving them is imperative, whose attention should be given before any arts projects. Additionally, public facilities and services are a precursor for economic and social development of a country, indifference to them is to stop the country itself from standing side by side with others.

To wrap up, people’s well being includes not only physiological factors but spiritual ones, any government focusing on enhancing the former ignoring the later ones, is unwittingly to lead the country to a handicapped development putting it citizens into ever dire needs of something meaningful to them. (394 words)
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