On Mon, 2004-12-13 at 12:42 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Dave Laird <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >Bill Anderson wrote: > > >> Your cognitive dissonance is resonating into higher levels of > >> reverberation, setting up a positive feedback loop. > > ><chuckling> Are you *SURE* you haven't written speeches for the U.S. > >House, Senate or the President of the United States before? That sets up > >hitherto unseen levels of obfuscation that fly in the face of what is > >considered to be palatable dispersement by most layers of our government, > >with the possible exception of The Department of Homeland Security, which > >writes stuff not even their own analysts comprehend completely. > >-- > Hey, I understood it. Of course the business about levels of reverberation > of cognitive dissonance extends a psychologic metaphor, so part of it was > metaphoric. However, the other part was scientific, about positive > feedback. > > Bill was just trying to use psychologist-speak, then engineering-speak, > trying to find SOME way for Frank to understand what Bill was saying in > other places in less compact but more plain-language ways. > > Bill's saying that Frank has so disengaged his thinking from the facts that > now all he's getting is his own echo, which he takes to be confirmation of > facts.
Dead on. I am quite pleased someone got that out of it. Combined with Dave seeing the humor, it's pretty darned cool. Thanks. Bill _______________________________________________ Libnw mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] List info and subscriber options: http://immosys.com/mailman/listinfo/libnw Archives: http://immosys.com/mailman//pipermail/libnw
