Why do you think so many writers and artists have such a mixture of love and hate for the regions they are from? Why is it important for artists, writers, thinkers, and others to critique their culture and their society?

Artists, regardless of what field, are very passionate about their ideas. Many people are born and are taught to represent their home state. People depending on their life experiences, and views on life affect the way they generally see the world, and by that where they were born or raised. People might love where there from or hate it, but generally, people, when having views on something, always have pros and cons. So by those two ideologies, artists are generally passionate about the things they love and hate.

It is important for artists, all of those "nouns" are all art, to critique their culture and society. Again artists are generally passionate, and in some cases, vocal of their passions and opinions. It is important for critique for a multitude of reasons. One being everyone in the world needs perspective, without perspective you are by definition self-centered. And sometimes people need perspective to create their own opinion about a topic. Another reason people need to read that is because since the dawn of human civilization, art, whether in music, or drawings, have always been a reflection of whats happening at the time. Whether it be about the evolution of humans, or events happening. Art is important for the viewer(s) of it because it might offer perception then, and be included in history. Culture and society are things that are the two biggest and most important things in history, art is a reflection of both, whether broadcasting what that culture or society does, or is about.

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