Formerly represented at World Championships and Olympics、A sports commentator recently said this:。“The sports world、Even the taxes of people who don't play sports are used.、What can we give back to society?。If we don't think about this, people will turn away from sports."。
I can't understand your feelings, but、What I feel is a little dangerous is that ``Since we are using tax money, we have to give something back.''、Something similar to give and take。This part seems to resonate with many people in Japan these days.、If you think about it a little deeper, it could lead to the exclusion of socially vulnerable people by saying, ``I don't want people who can't (or don't think) to give it back to use it.''、Also for children's education、It may instill a sense of nationalist obligation to "return to the country in the future"、It is a sport that is firmly connected to the essence of current sports.。Of course, he didn't directly say that.、It contains a logic that can be interpreted as such.。When this ``return'' becomes ``something concrete,'' it becomes a statement such as ``It's meaningless unless it's a (gold) medal.''。
If you think like that, then、"What does art give back?"、かつてのロシアや現代の北朝鮮のような「国家に奉仕する」プロパガンダ絵画になる。「芸術は社会のカナリアだ」という人々がいる。確か、むかし炭鉱夫が坑内へ入るとき、酸欠状態かどうかを知るためにカナリアを先に入れたということが言葉の起源だったと記憶している。スポーツや芸術を認める社会がとりあえずは「安全」だ、というバロメーターとしてだけでも、すでに充分意味のあることだ。
世は健康志向だ。But、三流映画に出てくるような、ただただ殺戮するだけのロボット的な軍人ならともかく、運動と栄養だけで人間は健康になれるわけではない。精神的な愉しみ、安らぎが必要だ。心の栄養も不可欠だということ。人間らしさ、という意味では芸術は最も社会還元の大きな分野だ、とわたしはいつも思っているが、同時にそれがこの社会の常識であり続けることを、心から祈ってもいる。
