As a former marine, and also a dancer, I found this an incredible post on why we need the arts:
"You’re just normal. Me, I’ve got to work at it. I’ve got to come back and somehow rebuild myself. That’s why I love the arts and that’s why I need our friendship and that’s why I love a guy like you. You have all this beauty around you. You are an expert in beauty and you know how to give it to guys like me who have to become experts in evil and ugliness. That’s why I need these times with you.”- Bill, Security Specialist
Neil Roan (via the Great Dance Blog, thanks!) goes on to make another great point:
So often, ideologues force us, with their fiery rhetoric and vivid conjuring skills, to make unwise choices. They will take two rights and make one of the rights into a wrong. They may force these false dichotomies upon us for noble reasons, but the choices they describe for us are not improved by their intentions.
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