> --- dhamiltony2k5 wrote: > > Beven and John are incredible at > working to incite the loyal tru- > believer and hold that crowd there. > Is a study in propaganda manking > and they work it hard to pull all > the words and strings.
Even during my MIU days I realized I needed regular reassurance about attending MIU. I needed the reinforcement; otherwise, I would have been more uncomfortable than I was about borrowing money to spend extra years in college to have a funny- sounding school on my resume. That said, regular reinforcement is a necessary component of any outside-the-mainstream position. It's like food - in the absence of regular energy inputs, a system will succumb to entropy, and blend with its surroungings. That's not necessarily good or bad. It's simple physics. I see this principle everywhere people aspire to rise above mediocrity, whether that energy comes in the form of continuing education credits, professional conferences or church attendance. I'm sure much of this craving for energy inputs is simply feeding the ego in the Robert Perry sense of the word, the ego being an artificial construct maintained by attacking others. But it also makes sense from a more innocent perspective. I imagine a fair amount of activity here at Fairfield Life is for the purpose of reinforcing positions - for making the individual "right." If that's the case, it's tough to condemn the MUM crowd for doing essentially the same thing.
