If you see in any given situation only what everybody else can see, you can be said to be so much a representative of your culture that you are a victim of it. ------
S. I. Hayakawa
"In a world defined by nearly 100,000 iPhone apps, a world of seemingly limitless, self-defined choice, the Democrats are pushing the biggest, fattest, one-size-fits all legislation since 1965. And they brag this will complete the dream Franklin D. Roosevelt had in 1939."
If the GOP cannot frame opposition to ObamaCare for this electorate in a manner that is compelling, then the GOP will lose The Republic and will deserve to lose it - not that The Republic deserves to be lost, as it has been the best hope for mankind since its inception.
In this AP photo, we have Schumer, Reid and Leahy bravely striding forward into our bright tomorrow. The alarm bells should be going off in everyone's head when they look at these two photographs. How can such a thing be such a serious menace in a nation with universal education and mass communications? Something is fundamentally askew.
53 Nations ! More readers in Moscow than Minnesota + Mississippi + Alaska! No readers in Maine or Utah. We're very big in Brazil and India. Lots of fans in the DoD network, NASA, ARAMCO, DC law firms and several American universities.
Welcome to Memetics & Marketing™ !
There is considerable value - intellectual, social, historical and financial - in understanding how knowledge is recognized, used and passed on.This is the field of memetics.
However, I make my living practicing this art - which is something 30-somethings cannot do and off-shore service centers cannot do. I am good at this and not inclined to give away my store.
On my other blogs, I discuss principles. Memetics &Marketing™is my trade. To protect my trade, forgive me for being only anecdotal on this subject.
In another place,I opined that memetics, hermeneutics & semiotics constituted the VooDoo Trifecta of our times. I believe that. Generally the obscure and fuzzy points of view produced by these fields are intellectual junk, meant to make meaning meaningless. Word's spell-checker wants to correct memeticstoemetics; in general, one can scarcely quarrel with the assessment.
However, it all works well here . . .welcome toMemetics & Marketing™! Steven Bassion
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Assaults on meaning and drastic surgery in education have resulted in a general public that does not learn primarily through the Aristotelian/Thomistic system of logic – through principle, induction and deduction. The general means of learning in western culture have become simple, inane repetition by electronic media. This is actually a degeneration of western culture into the older tribal habits of other parts of the world and of pre-Enlightenment Europe. The scarcity of American math and science students is partially accounted for by this re-primitivization of American education and culture.
The Voodoo Trifecta of Non-senseactually has something to contribute to this re-primitivized, media-saturated cultural phenomenon because the question remains how to educate – or, at least, motivate – people who are inured of reason?
The answer is, obviously, voodoo! You get witch-doctors to conjure the images and associations that will motivate the enormous numbers of people who do not know how to think analytically or synthetically.
How else do you account for the election of Barack Obama on a platform of hope and change with no specifics? How else do you account for the legislature passing precedent-shattering laws while admitting that no one has read them? How else do you account for the White House spending $500,000/week on media management?
If the Republicans think they have a prayer to win in 2010 or 2012, they better begin with understanding this process. See a prior blog entry entitled “Defining Failure Before the Next Election,” which may be the most blog entry here.
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Disclosure:I don’t even get free peanuts, anymore.
Absence of Probable Cause:I seldom say anything nice about anyone.
About these FCC Disclosure Requirements:They are over-broad and, by the FCC’s own statement, intended to be selectively enforced.This is contrary to the First Amendment.This is the face of totalitarian repression.
Why not parallel disclosure requirements from newspapers and broadcast?
Why doesn’t the Obama/Pelosi/Reid triumvirate require similar disclosure from the Congress?
author, actor, publisher, pilot, practitioner of both dark and healing arts (economics/statistics/Jin Shin Jyutsu). You may contact me at steven.bassion at gmail.com .
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