Date: Sat, 8 Jan 2000 13:49:40 -0500
From: heyhoot-AT-mindspring.com (Christopher Hudert)
Subject: PUPT: Re: "Propaganda"


John,
 Propaganda, as Webster so succintly puts it, is "any widespread promotion
of particular ideas, doctrines, etc.". Indeed advertising would fit this
bill. As you say "Advertising is the most successful propaganda performance
of our time, and, in its most effective forms, rarely heavy handed, but
instead quite sophisticated and even considered by many as art." When you
think about it advertising, particularly on TV, is a mini show. And just
like a full length show gets it message across best when sophisticated and
not heavy handed. Apply the same thing to puppetry (or most any other
performance, be it religious, political, or merely entertainment) for a
better, more effective and successful show.
 I was not being critical of ALL religious or political performances, I was
just lamenting the fact that, as I see it, much of it is done so poorly
when it doesn't need to be. The good examples in the mainstream are sadly
the exception and not the rule. I wish it were the other way around. I
think we're in the same boat here, just rowing on different sides.


Christopher




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