Re: RAT Re: Rat Spat

[leewochner@movingarts.org (Lee Wochner)]

>My direct contact with you has been quite edifying, and enjoyable.. but as
>I read you, I find myself going from "gee, she's aggresssive" to "I feel
>she might be alienating a lot of people who could help her  get her  work
>produced" to " i wish she'd just cool out"  to "  I don't care about  this
>anymore" to" I wish I wasn't on this list." That was my  personal
>progression.


Ha ha ha ha ha! That's the typical rat-list journey, though, isn't it? And
then there's the next stage, what I call the "cleansing" stage, like
rinsing at the dentist's:  "Oh. That wasn't so bad." So then you come back
for your next appointment and the drilling starts all over again.



>
> Forget what you might be feeling for a second- a question- does  everyone
>have to share every opinion they might have just because  they're thinking
>about it? Are we all Pavlovian RATS,. reaching for the Reply to all"
>button? Must  we always,  to quote  Spinal Tap, "go to Eleven'?
>


Yes. We must all agree. Hasn't Disney taught you ANYTHING?



>
>Some misconceptions that I care to correct- that all in the theatre world
>are apolitical. Ask most on this list if they are not tired of my beautiful
>ravings about anarchism and pacifism. : )
>
>

True. See? I'm agreeing again.

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