Hi there,
I read this thread with growing interest.
Pablo Russell being a nuage fraud saddened me, some of the things sickened me, especially the stories about him and the young women.
Where do I start? Believe it or not, Pablo Russell used to be one of my personal heroes.
I try in English although my mother language is German.
My apologies in advance if there is incorrect usage of language.
This is my story:
I myself met Mr. Russell once about ten years ago or so.
I was a student of Biology at Bonn University and heaviliy involved in the poetry scene of the town, when a friend of a friend organised a lecture about native american culture. It wasn't an official part of the university program, but organised by students for students.
Mr. Russell explained some things about how native americans live today and that their roots were taken away from them and him was about to bring these roots back.
In my country as probably many know my people had commited a terrible genocide on the jewish people. This is still a topic in Germany nowadays, especially at universities. People today feel guilty although it was their ancestors who did so. If they could they liked to turn back time to make things right. Well, this may be why there was a lot people coming to the lecture cause many know how the West was conquered.
In the end, the lecture was nothing too special but for one point:
Mr. Russell is a great story teller, he knows how to catch your ear.
There was a young man very very eager of knowing everything about the "indian culture" especially how children were treated and if there was a kind of native american pedagogics (be4 you ask: no the young eager man wasn't me
P.R. answered the eager one that children where educated by stories and he started telling a story and
to make a long story short
after the story had been told, everybody knew that the sense of the story
was to educate the young eager man. But on the other hand the young man
did not have to be embarrassed of being educated in front of all the people because ostensibly the story was about how to educate children.
This left me deeply impressed.
Now to come back to Mr. Russell, maybe he has become a nuage fraud, but I'm sure that he at least once was a gifted man.
