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
I think that the terms of American political discourse can be changed, so that a large portion of the middle can be won over. I don't think a lot of tinkering, fine-tuning, pandering and pussy-footing is necessary if the memes are established in advance.Memetics & Marketing™
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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-sense actually 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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Why not parallel disclosure requirements from newspapers and broadcast?
Why doesn’t the Obama/Pelosi/Reid triumvirate require similar disclosure from the Congress?
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