Silver tongued orators
enrique
were to read what they say, instead of watching them say it, I doubt
that they would be as successful in controlling our hearts and minds.
I believe there is a grain of truth in the saying: "Its not what you
say, but how you say it". Perhaps we would all be better off if we
approached politics, our judicial system and religious preaching with
the clinical eye of a doctor or a scientist who weights the available
facts Spock-like, without any emotion or manipulation involved.
One can't deny that we are emotional creatures, or that emotions do not
have a place, on the contrary. But politics, law and religion are too
important in our lives to be subject to the whims of a manipulative few
who appeal to the power of our emotions to enslave us.
Imagine what it would be like if laws were proposed, rescinded and
voted on by a completely online public which read, rather than heard an
emotive speech by a silver tongued politician. Or if a jury decided on
the weight of the evidence presented instead of how good an orator a
certain lawyer was. Or that we would decide whether to adopt a
religious belief based on the written word instead of the tears, chants
and anguished voices and solicitations of a tv preacher.
Evoking emotions in order to manipulate people is a very powerful tool,
but in the newsgroups at least, it may not have the desired effect.
Calling people names and putting people down using the written word is
not nearly as effective as when said by Rush Limbaugh on the tube. It
is also more permanent, remaining there for all to see. I think it may
have the reverse of the desired effect. It is more likely that people
who insult, put down, goad and cajole others will not be taken seriously
by those who read their posts.
Anonymous
want to hear what makes them feel good. It's the sad fact...politicians
just give them what they want.
Eric
--
"To me it suffices to wonder at these secrets and to attempt humbly to grasp
with my mind a mere image of the lofty structure of all that there is."
- Albert Einstein (1879-1955)
enrique <ezef...@mindspring.com> wrote in message
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BOEDICIA
>Date: Wed, Apr 28, 1999 11:54 EDT
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>How do most politicians, lawyers and tv preachers convince us? If we
>were to read what they say, instead of watching them say it, I doubt
>that they would be as successful in controlling our hearts and minds.
So profound. It brought tears to my eyes,
particularly the "lawyer" bit.
>I believe there is a grain of truth in the saying: "Its not what you
>say, but how you say it". Perhaps we would all be better off if we
>approached politics, our judicial system and religious preaching with
>the clinical eye of a doctor or a scientist who weights the available facts
Spock-like,
Ah, Spock. better known as Leonard Nimoy -
Jew you know. Why they fitted him with those weird looking ears, I don't know.
His own would have served the purpose
just as well.
>One can't deny that we are emotional creatures, or that emotions do not
>have a place, on the contrary. But politics, law and religion are too
>important in our lives to be subject to the whims of a manipulative few
>who appeal to the power of our emotions to enslave us.
You mean Hollyvood and the Disney
bunch - Eisner, Katzberg and *that* lot?
>Evoking emotions in order to manipulate people is a very powerful tool,
>but in the newsgroups at least, it may not have the desired effect.
Oh, I don't know. *My* postings seem to bring out the "emotion" n the loony
left.
>Calling people names and putting people down using the written word is
>not nearly as effective as when said by Rush Limbaugh on the tube.
Really.? How about the written word of
the Jew Marx......... See below.
"What is the secular basis of Judaism?
"Practical" need, self-interest.
What is the wordly religion of the Jew?
Huckstering. What is his worldly God ? Money. We recoginise in Judaism
therefore,
a general anti-social element. Contempt for
theory, art, history and for man as an end
in himself, which is contained in an abstract
form in the Jewish religion is the real,
conscious standpoint, the virtue of the man
is money. The chimerical nationality of the
Jew is the nationality of the merchant, of the
man of money in general...Once society
has succeeded in abolishing the empirical
essence of Judaism, huckstering and its
preconditions, the Jew will have become
impossible" - Karl Marx 1844 Collected Works. Vol. 3 page 169-74.
Do yourself a favour. Don't tell Ramona.
> It is more likely that people
>who insult, put down, goad and cajole others will not be taken seriously
>by those who read their posts.
Don't bet on it Irving.