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Originally Posted by Dorian Gray
I would suggest this is down to a few factors:
2. Communist states look after their disabled citizens vastly better than countries like the UK. This care often takes the form of providing education and integrating such people into society, while in the UK we tend to pay money to have them locked in homes.
3. Communist countries had/have comprehensive education systems in which the arts were/are given serious attention. In the UK education is increasingly viewed as a means to an end, i.e. a good (=well paid) job, so the arts are given very poor public funding.
4. In a society that places high value on instant gratification, the immense sustained effort required for this level of achievement is not seen as worthwhile.
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That's just what they want you to think
