File puptcrit/puptcrit.0812, message 230


From: "Alan Cook" <alangregorycook-AT-msn.com>
To: puptcrit-AT-puptcrit.org
Date: Wed, 10 Dec 2008 16:16:09 GMT
Subject: [Puptcrit] The Third Reich Had a Puppet Theatre/So did the Soviet


Before the rise of Hitler there already was a puppet tradition in Germany & Austria (not to mention a thriving toy industry). Before Stalin there was Petroushka. Along with that were sculptors, playwrights, painters, musicians and other artists---not a few perished under these totalitarian regimes. The governments tried to harness the arts for propaganda (a word which once referred to the dissemination of information, but since the "information" was all a BIG LIE the word "propaganda" quickly took on a new meaning.)

One can look at Hitler as a failure---a mediocre artist whose talent did not equal his ambition so everything was based on lies, greed, megalomania, collective clinical nacissism. Stalin and Hitler had huge egos (variations on the theme of super race or I'm better than everybody because I say so)

The amount of destruction of great architecture, books, paintings collectively called "the lost treasures of Europe" was staggering.

What kind of legacy is that?

Sadly, the BIG LIE technique is not limited to any one country. Lee Atwater used it successfully to elect George W Bush, and the USA is hardly the better for it. We have not offcially been in a RECESSION, and now it turns out we have been in a recession for the past 11 months. Some of us knew it all along. The big lie is meant to divide and take over power, but the result is just another big mess. When organized religion becomes a participant in the BIG LIE it becomes corrupt In California we saw that with Prop 8 last month.

By their fruit shall ye know them.

ALAN COOK


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