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Entry: Unnatural Arts and Sports Link: http://www.takimag.com/site/article/unnatural_arts_and_sports#7784 Post contents: JP, once again you and I agree on more than our occasional quibbles might imply. We both know Marxism is rubbish - but we ALSO both know that so is its American kindred spirit of libertarianism and idolatry of the "market." In the Soviet Union of circa 1955-1989 (until Yeltsin and the American "free-market" interlopers ruined the fine job Gorbachev was doing of SLOWLY reforming the country and its economy) - during those 30-35 years after Stalin died and real Communism died with him, truly talented Soviet children of poor families had more ample opportunities to make the best use of their talents than gifted American children of poor families. Overall the Soviet system was worse, but when it came to promoting real talent among the poor, the Soviets did a better job of it. And yes that even applies to the fine arts, or perhaps ESPECIALLY to the arts! Compare Soviet cinema of the 1960s-70s to American cinema of the same era; Soviet cinema was immensely more intelligent AND in many ways less propagandistic than Hollywood movies! (Just one example, for now: in bloody 1969, under BREZHNEV, one of the greatest Soviet movies was, "Andrei Rublyev", about a 14th century CHRISTIAN icon painter! The so-called "Communist" government of the USSR approved of it. Meanwhile, in America, we were producing, what? "Midnight Cowboy", a movie about a homosexual prostitute. Hmmmm....) Keep it up, JP! Good on ya! And a link about that beautiful movie (USSR, 1969) about Russia's greatest Christian icon painter, is here: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0060107/ Sent at: 2008 07 24