Hi Curtis >Keith, > >May I say that such comments, only increases my sadness. Sadness in that >"such comments" only confirm my suspicions that the PR organizations and the >Propaganda they generate is slowly, but apparently surely .... working.
And the the media, especially TV more than any other, and the Astroturf groups, and the "think-tanks" with their big industry budgets and their sound-byte-sized "research" results, "peer-reviewed" in the media... $35 million a year on PR, another $100 million on advertising, plus how much on the rest of it, plus how much on lobbying? But the counter-spin is working too, and the Internet surely helps - very hard to say if more people are falling asleep or more people are waking up, but I'll root for the waking up bit, just on principle if nothing else. >How lonely it will be .... when critical thinking .... disappears. And we >become nothing more than (as Pink Floyd so poetically put it) "Another Brick >in the Wall". Yes... but there's this one too, and a few others: http://journeytoforever.org/text_pinkfloyd.html No more turning away, Pink Floyd >"Swallowing the Party Line .... Hook, Line, and Sinker" eh?? Seems so, Curtis. Something puzzles me though... Aleks and I have just been talking about fly-fishing - he checked out our new location on a map, up here in the mountains, lots of streams and rivers, and he reckons the fishing should be great. Seems he's right, by all accounts. So, with swallowing the Party Line .... Hook, Line, and Sinker - where's the bait? There's talk of channel-surfers and net-surfers with the measured attention span of a goldfish (nine seconds), but even a goldfish isn't dumb enough to take an unbaited hook. Yes, I know - PR isn't so much about telling you what to believe, it's at least as much about making you WANT to believe one thing rather than another. Emotional, not rational. Rational argument, facts, evidence and so on is then futile, it just bounces off. You can see it, eh? Regards Keith >Curtis > >Get your free newsletter at >http://www.ezinfocenter.com/3122155/NL > > >----- Original Message ----- >From: Keith Addison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > >--- In biofuel@yahoogroups.com, "hobbbes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >Hey if you don't like the idea of War or that it is necessary at > >times...then may I suggest in a most vehemently way Get Your Lazy Liberal > >ASS out of the United States > >Well, now, MISTER "Hobbbes", may I suggest a couple of little thing to you >in a slightly more calm and reasoned way. Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Biofuels list archives: http://archive.nnytech.net/ Please do NOT send Unsubscribe messages to the list address. To unsubscribe, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
