Reply To: General thought on old coal mines.

[Rezwan]

Phil’s Dad wrote: Rezwan, I understand the passion of your previous response. I was, quite consciously and directly attacking something you believe in [the oil spill video].

I’m not a believer, I’m a user. Haven’t I explained my philosophy of leveraging whatever presents itself? Eric dreamed up the oil spill video, and I was supportive. You, on the other hand, are being judgmental. “Attacking”, you say. You are free to come up with another video with a very different approach, and I will likewise be supportive.

FYI, first law of brainstorming is to be supportive. In improv, you say “YES” to things, even if you think they’re stupid. The opposite is called “denial”. Feel free to transform the improv, take the emergent work in new directions, add new stuff. But negating/denial is just a waste of time.

My point about the video (which media I fully support) is to go for a positive theme rather than bashing the other side.

So you bash it because you don’t like bashing? Oh! Wait a minute “the other side”. Ah, now we’re getting somewhere. The video is somehow threatening? You see “sides” in it? I didn’t see that. It was a simple choice video. What do you want – oil based economy and the costs that entails – or something new, energy from stars? Very simple. I wasn’t reading much else into it.

A very great deal of research indicates that a positive message carries more weight with a new audience. Negative messages work best only when the audience feels it has to make imminent decisions. This can not come until well after FF-2 at least.

Pretty words, my friend. Let’s see something specific – I await your positive script with bated breath.

Will try to be constructive of your effort.

But I confess now some confusion. Where is the trust in the scenarios you present here?

What scenarios?