Is Art a Waste of Time?

As I read the article written by Rhys Southan it got me thinking about resources and how people decide what to do with them. In the article it talks about a guy name Hilton who was writing a screenplay and decided to travel to East Devon, where he hoped to complete his screenplay, While there he begins to hear how the EA’s view resources and how they believe that people should be donating all kinds of money for people with diseases and who are in worse conditions than many of us.  They also mention that they only was to help others is by donating money. “But the gauntlet that EA throws down is simply this: does your money preferred goof deed make as much of a difference as simply handing over money? if not, how good a deed is it really?” In my opinion I think this statement is flawed. I think that people are able to help in more ways then just handing over money. People can volunteer at clinic’s and provide music and visual therapy. It all depend on what people need and everyone has different needs that they need met.

Another part of the article I found interesting is when then underestimated the impacts of visual and performing arts.” Artists, meanwhile , paint the beautiful landscapes in front of them while the rest of the world burns” This quote sticks out to me because I’m a fan of both musical and performing arts and have been apart of it my whole like and to me visual artists help bring a different view of the world into perspective. They sometimes show the truth and that facts people try to overlook. Also many times people in the art industries choose to donate their works and or profits to charities and for some of the EA’s to claim that they don’t contribute is a false statement. Sure some of that money used to publish or produce things could have been donated, but not everyone will choose to contribute in the same ways and regardless should be accepted as equal.