When the Olympics gave out medals for art

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8. What does it say that this was stopped?

Funny thing about the arts. People seem to think it just comes out of nowhere and has no value even as it influences and guides every aspect of our lives. As someone who has been paid by a local govt to write, I was subject to everything from astonishment to outright abuse by people who didn't recognize that every important moment of their lives is accompanied by the arts. Big, physical, adrenaline producing things are valued and quiet, internal, life enhancing things whose production you are unaware of are thought to be effortless. I wish it were otherwise, but not in this culture.