http://dramaticmedicine.com/2008/12/09/the-performing-monkey-sideshow-savant/ How the Arts Heal Tue, 07 Feb 2012 18:40:39 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ http://dramaticmedicine.com/2008/12/09/the-performing-monkey-sideshow-savant/#comment-392 Wed, 10 Dec 2008 15:39:40 +0000 http://dramed.wordpress.com/2008/12/09/the-performing-monkey-sideshow-savant/#comment-392 The place I linked, The Savant Academy, is supposed to be a conservatory for savants, but in watching stories and reading about that place it seems more centered around publicly celebrating the genius of its founder than in the private teaching of its students.
I don’t think Savants need to be placed in the public eye for the goggling. Let them have their private lives. They will forever be in the care of the state, so why force them into the public eye to perform? They don’t need to pay their bills. Savants should not be used to enhance anyone’s bottom line.

]]> http://dramaticmedicine.com/2008/12/09/the-performing-monkey-sideshow-savant/#comment-391 Wed, 10 Dec 2008 12:42:53 +0000 http://dramed.wordpress.com/2008/12/09/the-performing-monkey-sideshow-savant/#comment-391 Very sad, David. He’s an exceptional talent and someone close should either somehow prepare him for a conservatory or find a program that has experience of working with musical prodigies like him.

]]> http://dramaticmedicine.com/2008/12/09/the-performing-monkey-sideshow-savant/#comment-390 Tue, 09 Dec 2008 17:46:22 +0000 http://dramed.wordpress.com/2008/12/09/the-performing-monkey-sideshow-savant/#comment-390 That’s an excellent point, Gordon. A talent was found that could be exploited while the rest of the body and spirit were left to the inept ways of a cruel nature.

]]> http://dramaticmedicine.com/2008/12/09/the-performing-monkey-sideshow-savant/#comment-389 Tue, 09 Dec 2008 17:39:50 +0000 http://dramed.wordpress.com/2008/12/09/the-performing-monkey-sideshow-savant/#comment-389 He is a living marionette, but what’s worse, is there any hope for him to be a proper member of society if he can’t tell a square from a circle or get around his own home? It seems impossible for him to do just about anything and that is sad.

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