On 09/23/2015 02:54 PM, Marcus Daniels wrote:
Persuasion happens between minds. What you are describing is not scalable. The surgical intervention has to be done on the right people, not individuals of low conviction. They just fall in line to the right manipulator.
Perhaps I was too opaque. It does scale. My chosen example is political correctness, that bogeyman of old or isolated people everywhere. Scaling this up requires a "big data" (for lack of a better term) approach. You create a prickly environment that can explode on anyone whose interface with the environment isn't tightly coupled. It can explode on people who are tightly coupled to the environment, too. (E.g. Ben Afleck's reaction to Sam Harris or Effie Brown's reaction to Matt Damon.) The chance that it will explode on you if you make the smallest faux pas is a surgical hole-poking method. Perhaps it doesn't scale quite as easily as fear-based ideology/imagery. But it does scale. -- ⇔ glen ============================================================ FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com
