If you guys wonder how well mass psychology and PR works, a man named Edward Bernays, the "father of PR", came up with a PR campaign for the bacon industry, and got the public hooked on Bacon and Eggs for breakfast - he also came up with the idea for the image that female smokers are "sophisticated", to sell more cigarettes. He teamed up with Hollywood directors to come up with sophisticated female smoker characters.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Bernays
--- On Thu, 9/24/09, Jim Wilson <[email protected]> wrote: From: Jim Wilson <[email protected]> Subject: RE: Response: ABC News' John Stossel Blows Lid off ObamaCare To: [email protected] Cc: "'Miata Power List'" <[email protected]> Date: Thursday, September 24, 2009, 1:23 PM For a great read on how we are manipulated read this book: The Social Animal. It’s a psychology text that deals mostly with other things but it does talk about how we can be manipulated. I read a different edition during the Clinton Administration and was blown away when I realized how much we were being manipulated by the government (and it applies to ALL administrations) I just happened to read it during that one. It also opens your eyes to advertizing and a lot of other actions designed to change behavior. It’s also got a lot of great info on the best way to raise your kids. Not what to teach them but how to teach them so they learn what you want. For example, if the punishment is too weak, people won’t change their behavior, if the punishment is severe then people don’t do something because of the fear of the punishment alone, a measured punishment will give say 80% of the reason not to do something and the person needs to fill in the other 20% - it gets filled in with “because that’s the correct way to behave”, thus too lax or too strict don’t work – it’s the middle ground that makes us better. From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of [email protected] Sent: Thursday, September 24, 2009 11:33 AM Cc: Miata Power List Subject: Re: Response: ABC News' John Stossel Blows Lid off ObamaCare What scares me is not that this was posted, but that someone is actually FOR this mess. I guess it just goes to show you that if you can control the media you can control people's thinkings. Remember the TV series Spin City ? There are people who's job is to make you think black is white. st.miatapower.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/miatapower
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