Date: Thu, 07 Feb 2008 18:50:11 -0500
From: Mary Horsley <mphorsley-AT-earthlink.net>
To: <puptcrit-AT-puptcrit.org>
Subject: Re: [Puptcrit] Should I reply?


Kismet. 
I really like your comment here. Is it ok if I share it with my Early
Childhood online list?

Mary Horsley


On 2/6/08 11:27 PM, "Kismet" <kismet-AT-bigpond.net.au> wrote:

> 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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