Art is considered an essential part of all cultures throughout the world. However, these days fewer and fewer people appreciate art and turn their focus to science, technology and business. Why do you think that is? What could be done to encourage more people to take interest in the arts?

Art has been losing the status it was once granted to it - one of essentially to the well lived life. Nowadays, science, technology and business have become the protagonists of our collective attention, leaving little space for the arts.

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essay will discuss how

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state of affairs is a symptom of the economic forces currently at play as well as put forward suggestions of actions that could be taken to reawaken people to the enormous value of

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. Our current economic scenario is one which pursues profit for its own sake, prioritizing short-term economic development over long-term human individual development. Under

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conditions, the result is an overwhelming emphasis

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the logic professions and sectors (

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as engineers, managers and medical doctors) at the expense of artists and arts of all kinds. Schools, which are forming the future generations of our world, are spending much less time it was once spent introducing children to the concepts of arts and its practice, resulting

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, in a self-reinforcing system that serves the interests of the economic structure we currently operate under. To transmute

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state of affairs,

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and foremost, governments need to understand the relevance of the arts and its broader implications as well as its essentially

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nations’ long-term survival. Following that, governments need to deemphasize economic growth whilst emphasizing personal growth. One country that has recently taken similar steps was New Zealand; it announced

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year that its HDI (Human Development Index) will trump GDP (Gross Domestic Product) in the country’s

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from 2020 onwards. More specifically, countries need to ensure that school’s curriculum include regular and lengthy art classes and that citizens have more chance to experience art via public installations and

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To conclude, it is my belief that Capitalism is

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to blame for our current approach towards arts and that it reveals a nearsightedness of life in its

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my opinion that a shift in how governments perceive the role of

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the arts

must happen, along with a prioritization of personal growth, followed by specific actions that will reintroduce the relevance of

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the arts

in our collective life experience.