On Sat, Feb 20, 2010 at 7:33 AM, Cameron Childress wrote:
>
> On Fri, Feb 19, 2010 at 5:43 PM, denstar wrote:
>> I was more alluding to the volume of "hard evidence" that's out there
>> now which shows that we are affected by *far* more than you'd think.
>>
>> The music we listen to, stuff we read, the things we see... hell,
>> random tones actually change the chemical makeup of your brain-- I'm
>> not making this stuff up. :)
>
> I will grant you that people are definitely influenced by more than
> they think - alot of your points are valid. I really am just not
> wandering off my initial point that watching mainstream television
> isn't going to make a guy fly a plane into an IRS building unless he
> already has a screw loose.
The thing is, who has their screws in tight?
You think you're uncrackable? :)
Is it the last straw, which "makes" the camel's back broken, or did
those other straws play some role?
Is only the last straw, personally responsible?
And if these spread-out, wonky sentences are driving you crazy, how 'bout this:
War of the Worlds-- BOOM! I just won the discussion (LOL) with that,
right? Isn't it a little closer than the video game example, a bunch
of false information coming from a "trusted" source?
Did people do crazy stuff? I don't really know, I wasn't there, but I
heard it was so.
It may seem like I've actually wandered way off topic, but this is
like one of those deals where we go out all like "WTF?" and then I
bring it back all like "Oh /snap/!". :)
"Some" media outlets tend to denigrate whole groups of people quite
often. Do you think this has no effect on one's Psyche? Do you think
it's without consequence?
I'm not saying I think this dude flew a plane into a building
because Fox news is sending out bad vibes, but I'm saying the stuff
has more of an impact than you seem to argue it does.
To touch on the "are people mostly good or mostly bad" thread, but
change it a bit to be "are people mostly sane or are people mostly
crazy", I'd argue that people have to be mostly sane (good?) or the
whole system would just come crashing down. We whiz by each other
(within feet, going opposite directions) at 60mph, have credit cards,
etc.. None of that would work if nearly everyone wasn't "normal", in
some respect.
Heh. The Sheeple... What's scary is when it's normal, or sane, to
think that-- Oh, snap!
I'm out of time. Guess we won't get back to that "Oh /snap/!" moment. :)
My bad.
:DeN
--
We shall be inclined to pronounce the voyage that led to the way to
this New World as the most epoch-making event of all that have
occurred since the birth of Christ.
John Fisk
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