It's the Village that Counts, not the Pitch
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| Benito Mussolini |
The curse of the Enlightenment on Western values is that
there is something called reason, rationality, and logic which govern
action. If an argument is not
reasonable, irrational or illogical, it is invalid, and inapplicable. Its underlying assumption is that everything
is reducible into measurable, relevant, consistent and accurate labels for reality,
that can be consistently added, subtracted, contrasted, combined, allocated,
dispersed, and/or measured to good use.
Descartes didn’t know ducks. The Irrationality of Reason
It is concentrated into what is called, mental as in
conscious, subconscious, and unconscious manipulations in a lump of nerves
called the brain (cerebral cortex). Were
that true, decapitation would be an irritation.
Were that true, an erection would be irrelevant, and the flu clueless. One cannot have a head without a tail. And that includes the Autonomic Nervous as an
example of one of many biological systems networked to keep us alive and
kicking.
Or the need for “Stifficade”:
The central function in all life is to survive, day to day,
and generation to generation. Breed and
Feed, Dinner and a Date, Laid and Paid, and to ensure that, species develop
Roles, Rules and Tools to make that happen.
Failure is starvation or extinction.
And that requires an audience of a critical mass of male and
females who breed a critical mass of children to survive to puberty. And that’s a family, and a village of
families who have Roles, Rules and Tools to survive. From the outside, the village is the
audience.
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| The Eternal Drama between Victim, Rescuer and Prosecutor |
And some villages aren’t listening, some have heard it all,
and others soak it up like a Magical Elixir (Beer). This we have in terrorism, radical
polarization, and drug addiction. Depending how the Rules and Tools serve the
Roles related to Survival (Village wise).
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| Rules applicable to all forms of life, coded in culture and DNA. |
The core of the Trump
audience is made of the inheritors of the Scot Irish driven from Scotland to
Ireland to Appalachia because they didn’t listen to the arrogant, erudite,
socially elite, and utterly corrupt. The
more erudite, arrogant, and elitist the arguments are, the more corrupt they
must be.
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| 17th Century Version of the MBA |
And some villages, like families are dysfunctional and/or
broken into competing parts. The street
gang, the drug den, high schools, corporations, and political parties are part
family, part village, and a part of something else. The more arrogant, erudite, and elitist the
arguments be, the battered and beaten shoot back at.
Selling soap to the Unwashed is problematic. Selling the Oxymoronic eventually reaches
Cognitive Dissonance, and every once in a while, Rage. Selling the notion that some people are more
equal than others became normalized about 1984. Orwell is crying. The village is dying.
The Pitchfork and Torches are marching.
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| ISIS |
OBTW - Watch the body language which language is far more effective than words.
Mussolini
Trump
3 comments:
this is a rather generalized writing... unconvinced one CAN reduce Trump audience to Scot - Irish, as a matter of fact, I know new Chinese highly commi-educated workers love Trump as well... hard to fathom that, right?
Thanks for your encouraging remarks
Trump lacks a central plan that other dictators used successfully such as Stalin, Saddam, Hitler or FDR, He does use division of responsibility into conflicting and overlapping mandates
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