Well, yeah, my point exactly to reiterate from elsewhere
[I’m interested in] spreading dark-art antibody memes, but you can’t do that without taking a sample of the dark arts most prevalent at the moment, much as they must round up viruses every year to develop the yearly flu shot. So I wouldn’t be looking for “the best” dark arts but rather the ones one is likely to encounter. E.g. a good source would be Newt Gingrich’s “Language: A Key Mechanism of Control” memo (http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article4443.htm) EXCERPT:
“In the video ‘We are a Majority,’ Language is listed as a key mechanism of control used by a majority party, along with Agenda, Rules, Attitude and Learning. As the tapes have been used in training sessions across the country and mailed to candidates we have heard a plaintive plea: ‘I wish I could speak like Newt.’ That takes years of practice …”
This introduces the famous word list: a list of smiley-face words to use when describing your own positions, and nasty-face words to use when putting words in the mouths of your opponents (or do I say ‘enemies’?). Or there is the Paul Wyrich farewell letter which did much to propagate the meme “political correctness is cultural Marxism”, or the Weyrich-inspired “The Integration of Theory and Practice: A Program for the New Traditionalist Movement” (http://therealtruthproject.blogspot.com/2011/02/integration-of-theory-and-practice.html), a document Lenin might have been proud of.
I’m all about blunting the effectiveness of certain tactics that reduce the possibility of our thinking clearly (and by “our”, I mean not that of LW, or the Second Foundation, but of the whole mass of people whose votes determine who we get to have as President, etc.)
ASIDE: One place where Thomas Jefferson was one of the least small-gov’t-ish founding fathers was education, and he was also all about disempowering religion memes
NOTE: I don’t mean to get onto politics per se—just practices that tend to turn it into a struggle between hidden conspiracies, but I think it’s hopelessly abstract to try to discuss that without the aid of current examples.
Well, one could certainly learn from the dark arts threads what not to do and what to be aware of to watch out for.
Well, yeah, my point exactly to reiterate from elsewhere
[I’m interested in] spreading dark-art antibody memes, but you can’t do that without taking a sample of the dark arts most prevalent at the moment, much as they must round up viruses every year to develop the yearly flu shot. So I wouldn’t be looking for “the best” dark arts but rather the ones one is likely to encounter. E.g. a good source would be Newt Gingrich’s “Language: A Key Mechanism of Control” memo (http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article4443.htm) EXCERPT:
“In the video ‘We are a Majority,’ Language is listed as a key mechanism of control used by a majority party, along with Agenda, Rules, Attitude and Learning. As the tapes have been used in training sessions across the country and mailed to candidates we have heard a plaintive plea: ‘I wish I could speak like Newt.’ That takes years of practice …”
This introduces the famous word list: a list of smiley-face words to use when describing your own positions, and nasty-face words to use when putting words in the mouths of your opponents (or do I say ‘enemies’?). Or there is the Paul Wyrich farewell letter which did much to propagate the meme “political correctness is cultural Marxism”, or the Weyrich-inspired “The Integration of Theory and Practice: A Program for the New Traditionalist Movement” (http://therealtruthproject.blogspot.com/2011/02/integration-of-theory-and-practice.html), a document Lenin might have been proud of.
I’m all about blunting the effectiveness of certain tactics that reduce the possibility of our thinking clearly (and by “our”, I mean not that of LW, or the Second Foundation, but of the whole mass of people whose votes determine who we get to have as President, etc.) ASIDE: One place where Thomas Jefferson was one of the least small-gov’t-ish founding fathers was education, and he was also all about disempowering religion memes
NOTE: I don’t mean to get onto politics per se—just practices that tend to turn it into a struggle between hidden conspiracies, but I think it’s hopelessly abstract to try to discuss that without the aid of current examples.