In case anyone missed what Marcus is referring to, as I did https://www.theatlantic.com/facebook-instant/article/617623/
--- Frank C. Wimberly 140 Calle Ojo Feliz, Santa Fe, NM 87505 505 670-9918 Santa Fe, NM On Sun, Jan 10, 2021, 11:03 AM Marcus Daniels <[email protected]> wrote: > Caitlin’s observation about the velvet ropes captures it perfectly IMO. > > > > *From:* Friam <[email protected]> *On Behalf Of *Frank Wimberly > *Sent:* Sunday, January 10, 2021 10:01 AM > *To:* The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group < > [email protected]> > *Subject:* Re: [FRIAM] Great Communicator or NLP unto TDS > > > > Trump speaks at a junior high level ("fantastic", "disgusting") and > repeats every phase two or three times. Obama was a great communicator. > The effectiveness of the two styles depends on the audience. > > --- > Frank C. Wimberly > 140 Calle Ojo Feliz, > Santa Fe, NM 87505 > > 505 670-9918 > Santa Fe, NM > > > > On Sun, Jan 10, 2021, 10:57 AM Steve Smith <[email protected]> wrote: > > I didn't take the bait on Friday's vFriam when DaveW (as I remember) > claimed that Donald J Trump was "a great communicator". (same as > Reagan was credited by his fans and perhaps more reluctantly his > detractors?) > > I suppose Trump is very effective at one mode of transmission of his > ugliest sentiments, which I find to be at best a very degenerate form of > CO mmunication. > > Whatever skills he has for "reading a crowd" and reflecting back that > which serves his purposes feels more like Neurolinguistic Programming > (NLP) than "communication". > > I believe it is duplicitous and divisive to claim he is "a great > communicator" That implies both depth and breadth, that he is listening > to a broad swath of the country and he is speaking to a broad swath. > Perhaps by a twist of interpretation, you *can* claim that he has his > finger on the pulse of those he whips into a seditious and > insurrectional frenzy as well as those he cannot so instead whips into > what has been called "Trump Derangement Syndrome" (TDS). His apparent > ability to instigate TDS in virtually everyone (type A or type B) is > somewhat unique... though authoritarian figures around the world have > done it for millennia? > > One (DaveW?) could also argue his sublime ability to give clear > direction/orders to his underlings (e.g. Michael Cohen, et al) without > ever actually saying anything indictable. This is the stuff of Crime > bosses, right? Very effective communicators within a very narrow (and > useful to them) context. > > DaveW's assertion on Friday provided me the perspective and motivation > to look a little deeper into the question of just what makes Trump's > style of communication so dangerous. The previous post with the > Politico article about Sedition vs Insurrection came to me from that > unconsciously I think. > > - SteveS > > > > - .... . -..-. . -. -.. -..-. .. ... -..-. .... . .-. . > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Zoom Fridays 9:30a-12p Mtn GMT-6 bit.ly/virtualfriam > un/subscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com > archives: http://friam.471366.n2.nabble.com/ > FRIAM-COMIC <http://friam.471366.n2.nabble.com/FRIAM-COMIC> > http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ > > - .... . -..-. . -. -.. -..-. .. ... -..-. .... . .-. . > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Zoom Fridays 9:30a-12p Mtn GMT-6 bit.ly/virtualfriam > un/subscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com > archives: http://friam.471366.n2.nabble.com/ > FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ >
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