Grabar

[barbara100]

And when all else fails--prison, poverty, ignorance, propaganda, emotional
manipulation--then you rig the polls and call it technological advancement!

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "sims" <sims at ezpzapps.com>
To: "Paul Mackin" <paul.mackin at verizon.net>; <pynchon-l at waste.org>
Sent: Saturday, September 11, 2004 9:01 AM
Subject: Re: Grabar

> >It's important to say in this regard that the ease with a large
> >proportion of the American electorate (or any electorate) can be
> >manipulated has nothing to do with patriotism or scoundrelism. Has to do
> >with propaganda, lack of attention, and alas in all to many cases
> >ignorance.
>
> Emotions are what it is all about.
>
> The manipulation of emotions through fear is how it gets done.
>
> Ignorant, smart, sophisticated...are mostly irrelevant
concepts/terms/words
> when it comes to emotions.
>
> People who use logic, read the fine print in policy statements,
> understand complex systems,
> and almost any other analytical method and keep their emotions out of
> the equation are in the
> minority...at least that is my take on this. Emotions are like a
> programming "front script"
> which re-channels all activity coming in from the queue.
>
> Ciao
> sims
>
>