File puptcrit/puptcrit.0802, message 199


From: "Alan Cook" <alangregorycook-AT-msn.com>
To: puptcrit-AT-puptcrit.org
Date: Thu, 07 Feb 2008 07:29:12 GMT
Subject: Re: [Puptcrit] "Conservatve views" being expressed.


May I remind the unobservant that most views expressed in print & TV in contemporary USA  have been  "conservative" in the past 6 or 7 years in today's American culture---a balanced view has been discouraged by Karl Rove and his ilk in the name of the incumbent President and VP Cheney. We hear how we need improved education but the budgets get cut and instead the pupils spend too much time taking tests and not learning to think.. It has been endless doublespeak, a technique perfected by Hitler, Stalin and Karl Rove---their particular political angles may have varied, but their techniques all involved THE BIG LIE and they shared the need to demonize those they opposed. A lot of big money has gone to Halliburton rather than to worthy life-enhancing things.

Think THAT does not effect puppeteers?

 Lousy "leaders" were all dividers, not unifiers. They all were greedy for power and money..

As a sometime visitor to the Veterans Administration Hospital in Los Angeles I have been made aware of huge budget cuts at that facility at the same time Bush urged the rest of us to support our troops.

Have you forgotten how underprotected our military vehicles were in Iraq and all the excuses for insufficient armor Yah, some support. More doublespeak.

And the recession we've been in is still not official. More doublespeak.

Then there was that scandal in Washington DC area VA hospitals---mildew in the walls, you name it. Where was the press all that time? 

Another thing, what currently masquerades as "conservative" is mostly greedy or opportunist, but hardly conserving of lives, the natiional treasury, hardly protecting the Consititution, or maintaining qualities that made the USA great. A real conservative would not approve such doublespeak. 

Even though a majority of Amercan citizens question what has happened in Iraq nothing has changed., Photos of coffins being shipped home were censored when possible. Troops have endured 3 and 4 tours of duty---anything to avoid imposing a draft on the general population because then there would be more protests and more questioning from our citizens.

I don't see how current "conservative" policy benefits patriotic Americans currently serving in uniform---it disabuses them. So we aren't supposed to notice?
Baloney!

Who betrayed our "American values" with waterboarding torture? Baby, it was not any liberals, and it was not any true conservatives.

When I was in high school one used to see lots of printed signs in big black letters which read "THINK". What has happened to those signs? All gone!

ALAN COOK


-----Original Message-----
From: Kismet
Sent: Wednesday, February 6, 2008 8:27 PM
To: puptcrit-AT-puptcrit.org
Subject: Re: [Puptcrit] Should I reply?

Well seeing we are coming out of the closet Joe....;-)
Yes I understood that you were interested in targetting the consumers of 
such games BUT that is exactly my point. The decline over the last 20-30 
years has been a result of dumming down, a dummed down population is a 
subserviant and cheap population, video games, lots of TV programes, toys 
and our education systems are all designed to ensure that the future will 
have a dumbed down population, incapable of individual thought or of 
challenging the paradaigm....When I was a kid a bulldozer was a block of 
wood, a piece of ply and a truckload of imagination......Now if it doesnt 
have a ticketed driver, lots of noises and flashing lights and a USB link 
its not on the radar...but whats missing????? Imagination.
But suddenly along comes Joe wiggling bits of wood and stuff on strings and 
asking the kids to trust their imaginations and what happens? The big 
corporations laugh till it becomes popular then they point out how 
unhygeinic it is and how THEIR new puppets have a ticketed operator, all the 
flashing lights and noises and a USB link so that the kids DONT have to 
think about scripts and plots and...... If Joe is lucky he is paid to go 
away, if not he is sued and it is not a joke that Joe could also be sued for 
loss of income if he manages to convice kids NOT to play video 
games.........
So with big business, big dollars, years of indoctrination, a compliant 
government and a dwindling literate audience why do we continue?
Because some one has to and it may as well be me/us.
Bad things happen when good people do nothing.

D.


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Joe Dunfee" <joe-AT-dunfee.com>
To: <puptcrit-AT-puptcrit.org>
Sent: Thursday, February 07, 2008 12:57 PM
Subject: [Puptcrit] Should I reply?


> Oops, I tried to send that last message privately, even though it was
> just a clarification. (I labeled Private Reply to make sure the
> receiver realized that). But, even with that failure, I would like to
> suggest that more people try to follow my failed example if their
> post is purely off topic.
>
> Politics will certainly be deeply related to puppetry when it comes
> to arts funding issues.  But, a number of the recent postings were
> purely political.   But, let me ask the people who made such postings
> if you want the more conservative folks reply with their views?
>
>
> Joe Dunfee  joe-AT-dunfee.com
> Gordonville, Pennsylvania, U.S.A.
>
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