From: "Kismet" <kismet-AT-bigpond.net.au> To: <puptcrit-AT-puptcrit.org> Date: Fri, 8 Feb 2008 09:48:04 +1000 Subject: Re: [Puptcrit] Should I reply? Certainly Mary. Thank You. D. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mary Horsley" <mphorsley-AT-earthlink.net> To: <puptcrit-AT-puptcrit.org> Sent: Friday, February 08, 2008 9:50 AM 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. >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> List address: puptcrit-AT-puptcrit.org >>> Admin interface: http://lists.puptcrit.org/mailman/listinfo/puptcrit >>> Archives: http://www.driftline.org >> >> _______________________________________________ >> List address: puptcrit-AT-puptcrit.org >> Admin interface: http://lists.puptcrit.org/mailman/listinfo/puptcrit >> Archives: http://www.driftline.org > > > _______________________________________________ > List address: puptcrit-AT-puptcrit.org > Admin interface: http://lists.puptcrit.org/mailman/listinfo/puptcrit > Archives: http://www.driftline.org _______________________________________________ List address: puptcrit-AT-puptcrit.org Admin interface: http://lists.puptcrit.org/mailman/listinfo/puptcrit Archives: http://www.driftline.org
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