Reply #136: yeah but hundreds of people just read your post and learned something that we didn't know

[CreekDog]

and we are going to tell others.

i was already talking with two friends last week about how everything you see is essentially a fiction when it comes to the media. it came about because we were talking about the houses thing. we're in SF so it's Democratic/Green and they chimed in with the McCain retort, "but Obama has a million dollar house, how can he say anything." and i told them didn't they understand that the McCain response, which they recited was trying to get them to think that two things that weren't equal really were. yes Obama's got a lot of money, but does that really compare to a guy who is so fabulously wealthy that he can't count his houses, has servants, etc.? the fiction is that it's all the same, there's no difference. but the Republicans apply this so well and people buy into it. worse still for liberals, who are cynical that they are being lied to, it even works on them by making them disbelieve that even the most genuine Democrat actually wants to change anything. their eyes bugged open when i said that.

i told them we need to teach in schools what my schoolteacher taught me in 1th grade English class, about the levels of thinking and how to analyze things, to see through them. it's what i was taught in logic class which was required at California Universities in order to graduate. it's what Martin Luther did when he read the Bible for its own internal meaning rather than that imposed by others.

knowing how to do this is revolutionary. it is putting the conscious mind in charge of the subconscious to avoid manipulation.

i like this place, i learn. a thousand people picking apart the day's news and comment may only yield a handful of new revelations, but day after day, it adds up.

this place has made me so much shrewder about politics than ever before, even as it's made me more idealistic.