Do artists have a responsibility to speak out? By: milo204 (108 replies) June 17, 2010 - 2:41pmBacchus wrote:
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My answer is hell no!
However, I do think it should be an innate response in every culture to react against injustice. In a culture where this is not the case it is a human necessity to ease and transcend sorrow and one may choose to do this through art but the onus is on the culture as a whole to get healthy.