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Mr_Jefferson_24 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-26-06 11:52 PM
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Perception is Reality
By Ernest Partridge
Online Journal Guest Writer

http://onlinejournal.com/artman/publish/article_529.shtml


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All these factors are working to the disadvantage of the Bush regime, thus, the sub-surface stresses are accumulating. Given the manifest skills of the Bush propaganda machine, and the blackmail and intimidation issuing from Karl Rove’s office, the political fault beneath could hold fast throughout the next decade, into the Jeb Bush administration. Or it could rupture next month. My guess is sooner, rather than later.

Meanwhile, the resistance is gaining in strength.

The catalytic moment for liberation movements arrives when (a) the movement achieves self-awareness -- (a) when the dissenters look about and find that they are not alone, and recognize that they are participants in a concerted political force; (b) when the movement acquires effective leadership that focuses goals and coordinates action; and (c) when leaders and followers of the movement achieve results, albeit minor, and thus perceive that success is achievable. This perception that success is possible is, in itself, a formidable political force. “Perception is reality.” Si, se puede!
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no_hypocrisy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-27-06 07:42 AM
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1. Perception is reality is the hallmark of Joseph Goebbels on behalf of
The Third Reich.
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Mr_Jefferson_24 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-27-06 10:36 AM
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2. Your point being what? nt.
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rman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-27-06 01:26 PM
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3. The hallmark of Goebbels is abusing the fact that perception is reality
There's really no other way to know reality other then what our perception of it is.
Perception can but close to, or further from, the truth. But perception is by definition "perceived" to be "real".
In the end the practicalities of every day life will bear out how close one's perception is to the truth. Ie, was/is it a good thing or a bad thing to support Repub's "supply side economics".
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