This is America. True values don't go through your fingers or show up in portfolio statements. 4.Art serves as a critique of consumptive society, ushering in creative cultures that reaffirm the importance of beauty, critical consciousness, highly developed skills. Without art, life would be barren. Art is another commodity, created by elitists for elitists.
Education enables life-long intellectual vitality.
There is a right and a wrong, knowlng the difference is the province of morality, and organized religion teaches right from wrong. Family is the core of society. It's just another convention for rule-driven folks. The media enable us to become informed citizens, to provide sources of information, eyewitness accounts of important events, worlds of experience that would otherwise remain unknown. The ideal of creating a Marketplace of ideas can only exist if we have a free media.