Reference :- Prime Minister of Australia and closet health fanatic Mr Scott Morrison has cut university funding for humanities degrees .

 Reference :-   Demonstrators at Queensland University threw paint at Prime Minister Scott Morrison , and yelled abuse . Although they were protesting about the detention of asylum seekers , not funding cuts .

Well Mr Morrison , sir , what can one say?   Universities are supposed to be places for our youth to learn,  and grow intellectually .  Except for humanities degrees , obviously . What a waste of money they are .  Little wonder that they produce leftist students who protest against the neccessary inhumanity of indefinite detention .

Ken junior , the pest , keeps telling me that subjects like art and philosophy and literature enrich our culture .   He tells me that Winston Churchill when asked to cut funding for the arts during World War 2  replied    "then what are we fighting for ?"   .  That's the annoying thing about Ken junior , he always quotes raving Marxists these days .  

 Ken junior also says that since we were cave dwellers we have needed art to help nurture our souls , share our experience of life's mysteries and define our place in the universe .   He says that our use of tools is not unknown in the rest of the animal kingdom , but our craving for a cornucopia of artistic expression is far  more unique .  

Well I do agree that despite their struggle to survive our cave dwelling ancestors were still driven to paint and carve and make music and tell stories and philosophize about  the meaning of life .  But Mr Morrison , sir , that was before we invented football or pokies .   Life is different now .  And we have a free market  economy to protect . 

Ken junior pointed out that many of the most influential  people in the world studied the humanities .  But that begs the question  " Did they become successful because they took a humanities degree , or despite taking  one ? "    Perhaps if they had studied something useful instead , like marketing for example , they could have made an even greater contribution to human progress. 

Anyway , here's an idea .  Maybe funding for the arts could be restricted to art for advertising . You know , the design of labels and logos and advertising jingles . And techniques for making political advertisements look like public announcements .  It's as growing field , and to quote the iconic Greek Myth  ,  that would " kill two birds with one stone  ". 

Your comrade , Ken