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As the smoke cleared, Lawrence de Bivort <ldebiv...@earthlink.net> mounted the barricade and roared out: > Greetings, all, > > Yes. It is human nature when things are complicated and much unseen to > conclude that the situation must be caused by a cabal or a conspiracy. > Usually, though, these perplexing and often frustrating human-based > situations are the result of inadvertent patterns of interaction and > cognitive limitations. > > I would add another 'cause' of these situations -- and would include > cold fusion and global warming in these -- the relative ineptitude of > the 'good guys' (however you define them!) to communicate their PoV. > Too often the 'good guys' resort to attack and invective. Advocacy is > substituted for effectiveness, righteousness for influence. > > As I see it, influence is solely dependent on having access to the > person or group that one wants to influence. If one has access, then > only the interpersonal and communication skills of the 'good guy' will > determine the outcome. > > Does this make sense? This is part of the mechanix of power, certainly. Not the whole part, of course. And of course: it's why challengers to the status quo are systematically frozen-out of the bourgeois mass-media, for instance. Sometimes by the crude application of physical force, if need be. i.e: this is not a "natural phenomenon" at work: there is _conscious agency_ at work here: an actual enemy/ruler who intends to maintain that rule. - -- grok. - -- *** SOCIALISM OR BARBARISM ? *************************************** * Capitalism wraps itself in flags of convenience * Critical * * The latest one is religious obscurantism * Support only * ************ STEM THE ASSAULT ON MATERIALIST SCIENCE ************ * http://www.world-of-dawkins.com World of Richard Dawkins * * http://www.atheistnetwork.com Atheist Radio Network * * http://kpfa.org/archives/archives.php?id=33 Explorations archive * * http://www.secularism.org.uk UK National Secular Society * * http://njhn.org New Jersey Humanist Network * * http://palaeo.gly.bris.ac.uk/dinobase/dinopage.html DINOBASE * * http://www.dinosaur.net.cn/default_en.htm Dinosaur Museum China * ***** "HUMAN RIGHTS" IMPERIALISM: NEW FACE OF OLD EXPLOITATION ***** GPG fingerprint = 2E7F 2D69 4B0B C8D5 07E3 09C3 5E8D C4B4 461B B771 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAkm5eqEACgkQXo3EtEYbt3FPkACgqcW2N2dcCB0QXqOUEFlGFEMO ivQAoKtPtOjsq2heeFK5bCDjS0Tg+SCq =kAnj -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
