ANALYSIS – Going to the cinema, to the concert, to the theater has become painful for those who have vaguely heard of it and unthinkable for most of the others.
There is a subject passed over in silence during this election period: culture. Apparently, there is no problem: the government has done the job by spending more than 13 billion euros to support all the cultural industries hard hit by the Covid crisis. But repairing the living is one thing, bringing them out of brain death is another. During the presentation of her 2022 budget, Roselyne Bachelot, the Minister of Culture, made it clear that if “the 2021 budget aimed to repair and consolidate the foundations of our cultural policies, the draft budget for 2022 is intended to meet two requirements: to support the resumption of activity in the cultural sectors and, at the same time, to prepare the future of our cultural model”. However, there is an urgent need to rethink this model. Because what most clearly threatens the cultural industries is not the consequences of the pandemic but a pure and simple disappearance of practices!
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