New name: www.improvisation.fr
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I don't think politics and improv should go together.
I am against the .fr idea. Not that I don't value the sentiment behind it. I am totally against the war myself.
But then it just sublimates the site to being about "anti-war" on one leve, and it's really about so much more than that.
Improv has room for politics, but I don't think it should always be tied to it.
I'd rather see an "anti-war" forum created, like we have them now for cities, than to see the whole site dedicated against the war. And that is not particularly sensitive, either, to some of the improvers who, gasp!, may be in favor of the war.
Not that I am one of them.
But if we are to be an "open community" I think there should be room for everyone, and the site should not lean one way, or the other, on this issue.
- NICK
I am against the .fr idea. Not that I don't value the sentiment behind it. I am totally against the war myself.
But then it just sublimates the site to being about "anti-war" on one leve, and it's really about so much more than that.
Improv has room for politics, but I don't think it should always be tied to it.
I'd rather see an "anti-war" forum created, like we have them now for cities, than to see the whole site dedicated against the war. And that is not particularly sensitive, either, to some of the improvers who, gasp!, may be in favor of the war.
Not that I am one of them.
But if we are to be an "open community" I think there should be room for everyone, and the site should not lean one way, or the other, on this issue.
- NICK
I'm glad to see things are back on track in this thread.
Nick: Wouldn't you agree that every little thing we can accomplish is worthwhile? And especially what we do today? I think you are completely ignorant of the point and what Mullaney is trying to do for all of us by giving us something we can all be in on together, today.
Seriously, don't be ignorant. You'll feel like a real dummy tomorrow morning.
Nick: Wouldn't you agree that every little thing we can accomplish is worthwhile? And especially what we do today? I think you are completely ignorant of the point and what Mullaney is trying to do for all of us by giving us something we can all be in on together, today.
Seriously, don't be ignorant. You'll feel like a real dummy tomorrow morning.
Je pense que garder le nom improvisation.fr pendant la guerre est une protestation intelligente, non-violente et humoristique. Ca frappe et ca choque les meninges a reagir, et dans ce cas contre la guerre ... mais le site n'est pas un manifestation contre la guerre, comme Dani a dit.. c'est un lieu public pour une multitude de gens de se reunir et de s'entendre sue la drame et les spectacles d'improvisation...
So keep IRCBoard.com or improvresourcecenter however long even though for now the banner is witty and poignant, IMHO.
So keep IRCBoard.com or improvresourcecenter however long even though for now the banner is witty and poignant, IMHO.
Dan, my friend.
I really don't feel like I am being an idiot, but thanks for saying!
No, really. I stand by what I said. I love that Mullaney has this idea. I think it's noble, couragoues, and quite frankly a good one, on one level. I just, in the end, don't want my improv and IRC experience sublimated to 1) the french, and 2) the anti war movement.
If I want to vocalize my anti-war feelings, I'd rather do it in a fourm expressedly made for that within the IRC. Believe me, I would enjoy posting there. I am reading a play about Laura Bush reading to little dead Iraqi children that was serialzed in The Nation last week, and I would love to quote liberally from that.
But I have issues with the french anyway. Besides the US, the French are the most highly invested country in Iraq, having won contracts over the years to both make nuclear reactors and the subway system under Baghdad that was never finished. They are hardly an unbaised "alltruistic" voice in the anti-war debate, as far as I am concerned. I feel the world's indignation, and the flounting of International Law and the UN are really what should be defended. And of course all the Iraqi civilians who are paying the "price" for their "liberty" (as well as our soldiers...).
You see how quickly I get thrown into this debate? I want to talk about it. I just don't want this whole site dedicated to it. Improv is more than politics and I stand by that.
-NICK
I really don't feel like I am being an idiot, but thanks for saying!
No, really. I stand by what I said. I love that Mullaney has this idea. I think it's noble, couragoues, and quite frankly a good one, on one level. I just, in the end, don't want my improv and IRC experience sublimated to 1) the french, and 2) the anti war movement.
If I want to vocalize my anti-war feelings, I'd rather do it in a fourm expressedly made for that within the IRC. Believe me, I would enjoy posting there. I am reading a play about Laura Bush reading to little dead Iraqi children that was serialzed in The Nation last week, and I would love to quote liberally from that.
But I have issues with the french anyway. Besides the US, the French are the most highly invested country in Iraq, having won contracts over the years to both make nuclear reactors and the subway system under Baghdad that was never finished. They are hardly an unbaised "alltruistic" voice in the anti-war debate, as far as I am concerned. I feel the world's indignation, and the flounting of International Law and the UN are really what should be defended. And of course all the Iraqi civilians who are paying the "price" for their "liberty" (as well as our soldiers...).
You see how quickly I get thrown into this debate? I want to talk about it. I just don't want this whole site dedicated to it. Improv is more than politics and I stand by that.
-NICK
Yo hablo español, pero me gusta www.improvresourcecenter.com
