The Nature of Authoritarians

[Dirk Bruere at NeoPax]

http://members.shaw.ca/jeanaltemeyer/drbob/TheAuthoritarians.pdf

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Dirk

http://www.neopax.com/technomage/ - Magick and Technology

[Doug Freyburger]

Dirk Bruere at NeoPax wrote:
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> http://members.shaw.ca/jeanaltemeyer/drbob/TheAuthoritarians.pdf

261 pages. Yikes.

[Dirk Bruere at NeoPax]

Yes, it's BOOK!
Download it onto a Kindle or whatever

[scottl...@ix.netcom.com]

On Sep 10, 9:00 am, Dirk Bruere at NeoPax <dirk.bru...@gmail.com>
wrote:

> On 10/09/2011 05:30, Doug Freyburger wrote:
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> > Dirk Bruere at NeoPax wrote:
>
> >>http://members.shaw.ca/jeanaltemeyer/drbob/TheAuthoritarians.pdf
>
> > 261 pages.  Yikes.
>
> Yes, it's BOOK!

Yes, it's a book... without any description hereabouts, review,
nuthin'. Is it in the nature of authoritarians to tell people to read
a book without giving them a good reason *why* they should read the
book? Hmmm...

[Doug Freyburger]

Dirk Bruere at NeoPax wrote:

> Doug Freyburger wrote:
>
>> 261 pages. Yikes.
>
> Yes, it's BOOK!

I got to the survey. Because there were plus and minus scores listed as
I read the questions I kept a running count of my total. When I got to
the end of the survey I read that keeping a running total did not work.
Something about the numerical values in the responses changed in the
middle. That's when I stopped reading. Not that I think poor survey
design skills automatically equal poor writing skills but there are
other books that I am already reading and it doesn't take much to drop a
book off my queue.

[Dirk Bruere at NeoPax]

Well, I assumed you might be intelligent enough to read the intro and
make up your own mind.

[Dirk Bruere at NeoPax]

If you read further you would see that the survey was something of a
trick. It was not measuring what you might think it was.

[Doug Freyburger]

Dirk Bruere at NeoPax wrote:
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> If you read further you would see that the survey was something of a
> trick. It was not measuring what you might think it was.

In fact the survey measured my willingness to read further into the
book. Twenty pages in as soon as I got to the scoring of the survey,
the book lost. And so the author lost - It was not measuring what he
thought it was either.

[scottl...@ix.netcom.com]

On Sep 13, 11:30 am, Dirk Bruere at NeoPax <dirk.bru...@gmail.com>
wrote:

> On 12/09/2011 17:53, scottlowt...@ix.netcom.com wrote:
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>
>
>
> > On Sep 10, 9:00 am, Dirk Bruere at NeoPax<dirk.bru...@gmail.com>
> > wrote:
> >> On 10/09/2011 05:30, Doug Freyburger wrote:
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> >>> Dirk Bruere at NeoPax wrote:
>
> >>>>http://members.shaw.ca/jeanaltemeyer/drbob/TheAuthoritarians.pdf
>
> >>> 261 pages.  Yikes.
>
> >> Yes, it's BOOK!
>
> > Yes, it's a book... without any description hereabouts, review,
> > nuthin'. Is it in the nature of authoritarians to tell people to read
> > a book without giving them a good reason *why* they should read the
> > book? Hmmm...
>
> Well, I assumed you might be intelligent enough to read the intro and
> make up your own mind.

Do you have any idea how many millions of books there are in the
world? I don't have the time to read the *titles* of each one, never
mind the intro sections. Since the original poster of this thread
didn't bother to post even the tiniest blurb describing the book, why
should I bother to take the time to download it and read it?

Ye gods. I make suck as a salesman, but even I know that you've got to
do more than simply post a link and expect that people are going to
give a damn. Posts consisting of little more than a link immediately
set off spam (and malware/trojan) alarms. I guess you weren;t
intelligent enough your own self to read so much as the intro, and
post some reason why you thought the book should be either read or not.

[Dirk Bruere at NeoPax]

I posted it because I thought others might be interested.
If they are not, it's hardly my loss.

[scottl...@ix.netcom.com]

On Oct 20, 8:13 pm, Dirk Bruere at NeoPax <dirk.bru...@gmail.com>
wrote:

> I posted it because I thought others might be interested.

Others might be, if only you gave them a *reason* to be interested.

> If they are not, it's hardly my loss.

Maybe not a loss for you, but clearly a failure.