[ale] [Kinda OT] The "TalkMaster", Freedom and Free Software

[Jim Kinney]

If one hears "the chair is red" long enough, even though the chair is
green, it will eventually be perceived to be red. Humans are miserably
susceptible to most forms of operant conditioning. Read a book by Jacques
Ellul "Propaganda: the formation of men's attitudes"

http://www.amazon.com/Propaganda-Formation-Attitudes-Jacques-Ellul/dp/0394718747#_

I found a copy back around 1985 or so. It's from 1976. Well worth reading
for a high to mid-level analysis of how media is used to manipulate peoples
thinking.

On Mon, Jan 30, 2012 at 2:29 PM, mike at trausch.us <mike at trausch.us> wrote:

> On 01/30/2012 02:24 PM, Jim Kinney wrote:
> > I can't listen for more than about 5 minutes before I am overcome
> > with an explosive urge to divest my digestive track all contents all
> > at once. I have thrown radios into a concrete casting from hearing
> > him and his like.
>
> I tend to listen to his show without putting any power to what I hear,
> or I might find myself feeling very much similarly (at least, most of
> the time).  I do agree with some things he says very little of the time,
> but as the saying goes even a broken clock is right twice a day.
>
> I do even find it to be entertaining sometimes.  Other times, I find it
> infuriating.  And those are when I turn the netradio back to the 80s
> channel and stop listening.  :-)
>
>        --- Mike
>
> --
> A man who reasons deliberately, manages it better after studying Logic
> than he could before, if he is sincere about it and has common sense.
>                                   --- Carveth Read, “Logic”
>
>
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-- 
-- 
James P. Kinney III

As long as the general population is passive, apathetic, diverted to
consumerism or hatred of the vulnerable, then the powerful can do as they
please, and those who survive will be left to contemplate the outcome.
- *2011 Noam Chomsky

http://heretothereideas.blogspot.com/
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