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

[Charles Shapiro]

Shrug.  He makes money by making people mad enough to call in.  I met
the man a couple of times and was not impressed.

-- CHS


On Mon, Jan 30, 2012 at 3:22 PM, Jim Kinney <jim.kinney at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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> 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
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