If the Church mandates morality, and if the state fixes our appropriate behavior with laws, ethics, rules and values, what then, is the role of The Arts in the lives of the everyday citizen and must we require the state and the Church to not only support The Arts but to practice them as well?
Can, and should, Poetry and Art reflexively create moral consequence in society?
Or is the role of The Arts in society to only reflectively celebrate beauty and wisdom?