Comments on: How Storytelling will Save the World. http://www.storytellingwithchildren.com/2007/03/29/how-storytelling-will-save-the-world/ An international conversation of storytellers on the Art of Storytelling with Children Fri, 25 Jul 2008 03:35:29 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: Tim http://www.storytellingwithchildren.com/2007/03/29/how-storytelling-will-save-the-world/#comment-21989 Tim Sat, 01 Mar 2008 13:52:54 +0000 http://www.ericwolf.org/?p=15#comment-21989 To an outsider, we would appear to be a race of people grown inept at human expression -- making love, fixing dinner for someone, presenting an idea -- without devices or accouterments to focus and enhance our meaning. To an outsider, it might also appear that, psychologically if not actually, many of us live in isolation; and that separated from a continuous stream of stimulation derived from our purchases we become anxious.... On a practical level, we have to stop making things that sell, and make things that help. We have to rediscover story -- and music and the theater and dance and painting and photograpy -- as sources of renewal, not products, as the wellsprings of our dignity, our awareness. We have to discover, again, that our fate does not lie with government, or with capitalism, but with each other. <a href="http://www.earthisland.org/EIJOURNAL/new_articles.cfm?articleID=730&journalID=70" rel="nofollow">Barry, Lopez, 1995</a> To an outsider, we would appear to be a race of people grown inept at human expression — making love, fixing dinner for someone, presenting an idea — without devices or accouterments to focus and enhance our meaning. To an outsider, it might also appear that, psychologically if not actually, many of us live in isolation; and that separated from a continuous stream of stimulation derived from our purchases we become anxious….

On a practical level, we have to stop making things that sell, and make things that help. We have to rediscover story — and music and the theater and dance and painting and photograpy — as sources of renewal, not products, as the wellsprings of our dignity, our awareness. We have to discover, again, that our fate does not lie with government, or with capitalism, but with each other.
Barry, Lopez, 1995

]]> By: John K. http://www.storytellingwithchildren.com/2007/03/29/how-storytelling-will-save-the-world/#comment-8325 John K. Fri, 30 Nov 2007 02:33:51 +0000 http://www.ericwolf.org/?p=15#comment-8325 Yes, thank you. Yes, thank you.

]]> By: Joeri http://www.storytellingwithchildren.com/2007/03/29/how-storytelling-will-save-the-world/#comment-3069 Joeri Fri, 28 Sep 2007 14:42:41 +0000 http://www.ericwolf.org/?p=15#comment-3069 A fine story i must say. Kudos A fine story i must say.

Kudos

]]> By: Jamari Lawson http://www.storytellingwithchildren.com/2007/03/29/how-storytelling-will-save-the-world/#comment-358 Jamari Lawson Sun, 08 Jul 2007 01:35:16 +0000 http://www.ericwolf.org/?p=15#comment-358 Thank you. Thank you.

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