File puptcrit/puptcrit.0802, message 249


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.
>>>
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