Date: Sat, 14 Feb 2009 13:39:28 -0500
From: Mary Horsley <mphorsley-AT-earthlink.net>
To: <puptcrit-AT-puptcrit.org>
Subject: Re: [Puptcrit] Stimulus for a culture lacking in long term thinking


I love the way you wrote your thoughts, Rolande!

Mary H.


On 2/14/09 8:14 AM, "puppetpro-AT-aol.com" <puppetpro-AT-aol.com> wrote:

> My refrigerator broke yesterday. It's five years old. Those of you who are
> appliance-aware understand that "built-in-obsolescence" has become part of our
> culture. It started, I think, with the light bulb. Though light bulbs were
> originally designed to burn for years and years, someone realized that once
> everyone had one, the industry would be kaput. So, they began to make them to
> burn out after a few hundred hours. =A0
There was some sort of formula: If it
> costs enough, people will have it repaired. If it costs less than that, people
> will buy another one.=A0


Thus, we have huge amounts of things being tossed
> away. A consumer culture. =A0 =A0 =A0


Puppetry -- and people -- have been caught
> up in this Romanesque feast.

But now, oops, we need to change!=A0It is up to
> us, the people who can introduce new ideas into the minds of audiences (the
> artists/poets) to do the work of change. =A0=A0




Rolande

=A0



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> Message-----
From: Creaturiste-AT-primus.ca <creaturiste-AT-primus.ca>
To:
> puptcrit-AT-puptcrit.org
Sent: Fri, 13 Feb 2009 7:13 pm
Subject: Re: [Puptcrit]
> Stimulus for National Endowment for the Arts








I'd rather see the whole
> of human population reduced to Thumbelina's scale, 
so that we can finally
> reduce our footprint on the planet.  Gimme that magic 
button now and I'll
> push it.

Maybe the new constraints of what we could do in such small bodies
> in such a 
big world, would slow our "progress" long enough for us to grow
> wise enough 
t
o end the pattern of mindless and heartless parasitic leeching
> of the 
earth's resources. Give the big globe a break!

I've had vague bad
> dreams of the collapse of civilisation all my life. 
Somehow, that's not
> enough incentive to make me learn more concrete survival 
techniques.
So I can
> imagine how easy it is for those who refuse to see the patterns, to 
go back
> to sleep and dream the utopia that never
> was.


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