From: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Mathieu_Ren=E9?= <creaturiste-AT-primus.ca>
To: <puptcrit-AT-puptcrit.org>
Date: Mon, 23 Jun 2008 04:24:35 -0400
Subject: Re: [Puptcrit] small world


Alan is wise.

More wise people should run for decision-making positions. That way, they 
could show their team people and their citizens to make better decisions, 
and eventually, when people as a group can be sensitive and sensible, and 
when they get involved, there will be very little opportunity for any 
individual to seize power and misuse it.
It is so easy to let other people run the show. That's how evil happens.
When we elect "the least worse candidate on the list", or when we choose the 
one with more chance of beating the worse, instead of voting for our true 
choice...that's giving up.

Some say a crowd's IQ is ridiculously small compared to any of its 
individual's IQ.
I've seen it happen. Bloody schools fights becoming mindless entertainment, 
peaceful political demonstrations turning sour because of stupid 
individuals.

Well, the more aware individual people are about who they are and what they 
want to be, the less mindless they will be in crowds, and the less mindless 
crap will happen.

 And to make more people more aware, I believe a few important steps are to 
be applied, very early in our children's lives:

-encouraging them to think for themselves and question everything!
-exposing them to diversity in all things
-exposing them to all the Arts, and Puppetry is a great one for this because 
it encompases many art forms, and diversity, and it questions life!









----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Alan Cook" <alangregorycook-AT-msn.com>
To: <puptcrit-AT-puptcrit.org>
Sent: Monday, June 23, 2008 3:43 AM
Subject: [Puptcrit] small world


> Tis a small world after all---well, sometimes, anyway. Or to put it 
> another way, too many fail to recognize just how small the world is, and 
> how interdependent we really are.
>
> If so many idiots stopped raising divisions and fears, it would be a more 
> peaceful small world too. Culture can be positive or negative, religion & 
> politics too share in this dichotomy. For two terms the man in the White 
> House has lied, lied, lied & wasted huge sums and unknown numbers of 
> lives, violated the constitution, devalued the dollar, and other non-stop 
> sins in the name of "convictions", but claims he is a christian whikle he 
> waves a tattered morality flag.. Here in California other phony religious 
> persons are claiming to defend marriage next November. Well, Jesus, whom 
> they selectively quote, was quite specifically opposed to divorce, but 
> Pres Reagan divorced and so did a lot of those claiming to defend marriage 
> get divorced. A little skepticism is warranted these days. Hypocrisy is 
> rife throughout the land. And isn't hypocrisy involved in some efforts to 
> censor Punch & Judy?
>
> Change is required to repair our economy so that puppeteers can continue 
> to survive in the marketplace. Not only is it a small world where our 
> countries are concerned, but because it is a small world, we need more 
> fairplay evident in our lives.
>
> What we need is a Defense of People's Rights from those Claiming to 
> Protect our Rights While They Continue to Lie, Steal
> and Violate Us. Then our little world can relax for a moment.
>
> Just who were the moral superiors who brought us the Spanish Inquisition 
> and other holy delights? Soviet Communism practiced the same sort of fear 
> tactics.
>
> Misuse of power hurts us all. Small world, indeed!
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Michael Dowell
> Sent: Sunday, June 22, 2008 9:09 PM
> To: puptcrit-AT-puptcrit.org
> Subject: Re: [Puptcrit] Bruce Schwartz today
>
> It's funny -- a few months ago I tried out Yoga for
> the first time, and of all the dozens of Yoga teachers
> in the area, I took Bruce Schwartz' class at Yoga
> House. I wasn't aware that he had been a fellow
> puppeteer... Such a small world!
>
>
> --- Alan Cook <alangregorycook-AT-msn.com> wrote:
>
>> Bruce is a partner at YOGA HOUSE on State Street in
>> Pasadena and Tolucca Lake, CA. For a time he had
>> been making dolls for collectors and got a write-up
>> in a doll magazine.
>>
>> He had been awarded a MacArthur grant and promptly
>> retired from puppetry. Some said "he couldn't, that
>> he 'owed'it to the puppet world to continue." As
>> much as I miss his work, I could not tell him he
>> "owed" us anything---he performed, and those who saw
>> him when they had the opportunity, saw something
>> remarkable. I felt that we owed him. I wish the
>> struggle had been less intense, but those who saw
>> his work and believed in its importance, share in
>> the credit of bringing him to a larger audience.
>> Some of my allies have been mentioned, but Festival
>> Directors, and stalwart Puppet Guild leaders were
>> among those who helped. Mike Oznowicz, Jim Henson
>> and many others provided encouragement and support.
>> That was crucial.
>>
>> I must admit, a MacArtur Grant could come in handy
>> for my efforts at puppet preservation. Money is too
>> often scarce in our little world of puppetry. I
>> wonder where the new Bruces are, and how can we
>> discover and encouage them?
>>
>> I think Geo. W Bush has his priorities screwed up.
>>
>> Alan Cook
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Mathieu Ren?
>> Sent: Sunday, June 22, 2008 9:57 AM
>> To: puptcrit-AT-puptcrit.org
>> Subject: Re: [Puptcrit] Bruce Schwartz on Muppet
>> Show
>>
>> Thanks Alan!
>>
>> Fascinating inside story!
>> You said "Bruce David Schwartz is no longer
>> puppeteering, but when he was,
>> it was great."
>>
>> Dare I ask, what does he do now?
>>
>>
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