NP - OWS is Winning
David Morris
fqmorris at gmail.com
Thu Dec 1 16:23:05 CST 2011
On Thu, Dec 1, 2011 at 4:10 PM, alice wellintown
<alicewellintown at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> You don't win or lose a message war; it's such a stupid idea only the media could come up with it. You win or lose a contest, an election. But the media and the political parties have convinced voters that it's the nmessage war that matters. [...] The message war makes us all losers; democracy is not about message (or, medium), but elections and votes.
This is ridiculous. Votes are won and lost because of the beliefs and
aspirations of the voters. Political advertising, scandals,
mass-movements, especially TV media & ads, have a very strong effect
on the voters' beliefs. The biggest reason unworthy politicians win
elections is a misinformed/uninformed voting populace. Bad democracy
thrives on deceit.
David Morris
More information about the Pynchon-l
mailing list