Good morning, I haven’t shared a potpourri recently. Here goes: THEATRE EMERGES As you know, I love theatre. People are slowly returning and I couldn’t be happier! A couple of months ago, I reported on some theatre in New York and Los Angeles. Recently, we saw several L.A. theatre productions, all but one Center Theatre Group productions at the Music Center, all of which have “moved on”:
While the West certainly did blow it in certain ways, it was also the accelerated and chaotic attempts of Russia to transition from their Soviet era economic and social constructs to more Western practices. Instead of a generation long plan to build the infrastructure and institutions that are necessary to support such a system, slowly opening the gates of a free market and open political discourse, the change was immediate. The clout that power centers and security centers had was threatened and they found ways to continue their control through a takeover of economic interests through massive corruption. I am not sure what, if anything, the West could have done to stop that process.
While the West certainly did blow it in certain ways, it was also the accelerated and chaotic attempts of Russia to transition from their Soviet era economic and social constructs to more Western practices. Instead of a generation long plan to build the infrastructure and institutions that are necessary to support such a system, slowly opening the gates of a free market and open political discourse, the change was immediate. The clout that power centers and security centers had was threatened and they found ways to continue their control through a takeover of economic interests through massive corruption. I am not sure what, if anything, the West could have done to stop that process.