v5, #18, communicating with fear
The Alberton Papers, Vol. V, #XVIII
By Dick Darne 2-26-08
I was late. The new and improved Think Tank was up and running by the time I had fed the dog and got my shoes on. All the regulars were there and some others I didn’t know. All the seats were taken and just enough coffee for a half a cup, which meant that somebody whose coffee craving sent him for the last of the pot would have to make a fresh one. I started the task and began listening to the discussion. They were talking about communicating.
"A good communicator will always use more than one method in each communication." said Todd
"What do you mean, more than one method?" asked Johnny
"Well, all of your senses for starters," replied Todd, "mostly when you are trying to get a message across, it involves seeing or hearing. Obviously both can be used on television but only hearing on the radio. In print, seeing works. In person they both work and in the real world, touch, smell and taste all work. If you are selling pies, let everyone smell the wares. There’s another method that works quite well and it is emotions, especially fear and anger. They usually trump all the others, at least in the short term. Conjure up a mushroom cloud, or planes flying into buildings and buildings collapsing or hordes of turban wearing crazed fanatics pouring across the border and you have successfully delivered the "one" in the old "one-two". All rational thought goes out the window and you are now set up for the "two"
"Real easy to make people do things against their best interest. History abounds with examples. Some even brag about it." added Bill. "Did you ever listen to Rudy campaigning, every other sentence was: ‘911, 911 ,911.....’ or to the lies of this administration especially the orange alerts used to overshadow other events?"
" In my humble opinion," interjected Gno, who at first glance appeared asleep.
"One of the worst things that ever happened to rational thought is the ‘forward button’ combined with an absurd e-hatemail. The citizen’s atrophied thinking section of their brain blocks all critical thinking but enables the appropriate digit to punch the ‘forward- button’ thereby spreading hate, fear, anger, and lies like the bubonic plague."
Stay tuned, this will continue next week. Do NOT forward anything without checking it out. Turn off hate radio. Tune out fear mongers. THINK! dd
By Dick Darne 2-26-08
I was late. The new and improved Think Tank was up and running by the time I had fed the dog and got my shoes on. All the regulars were there and some others I didn’t know. All the seats were taken and just enough coffee for a half a cup, which meant that somebody whose coffee craving sent him for the last of the pot would have to make a fresh one. I started the task and began listening to the discussion. They were talking about communicating.
"A good communicator will always use more than one method in each communication." said Todd
"What do you mean, more than one method?" asked Johnny
"Well, all of your senses for starters," replied Todd, "mostly when you are trying to get a message across, it involves seeing or hearing. Obviously both can be used on television but only hearing on the radio. In print, seeing works. In person they both work and in the real world, touch, smell and taste all work. If you are selling pies, let everyone smell the wares. There’s another method that works quite well and it is emotions, especially fear and anger. They usually trump all the others, at least in the short term. Conjure up a mushroom cloud, or planes flying into buildings and buildings collapsing or hordes of turban wearing crazed fanatics pouring across the border and you have successfully delivered the "one" in the old "one-two". All rational thought goes out the window and you are now set up for the "two"
"Real easy to make people do things against their best interest. History abounds with examples. Some even brag about it." added Bill. "Did you ever listen to Rudy campaigning, every other sentence was: ‘911, 911 ,911.....’ or to the lies of this administration especially the orange alerts used to overshadow other events?"
" In my humble opinion," interjected Gno, who at first glance appeared asleep.
"One of the worst things that ever happened to rational thought is the ‘forward button’ combined with an absurd e-hatemail. The citizen’s atrophied thinking section of their brain blocks all critical thinking but enables the appropriate digit to punch the ‘forward- button’ thereby spreading hate, fear, anger, and lies like the bubonic plague."
Stay tuned, this will continue next week. Do NOT forward anything without checking it out. Turn off hate radio. Tune out fear mongers. THINK! dd
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