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TameMe
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influencing perception...propoganda
#5294511 - 02/13/06 11:51 AM (17 years, 11 months ago) |
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i started reading animal farm today..and in the intro there was a quote something like this "poets are the unknown legislatures"
it got me to thinking who are the people/groups influencing most of our perceptions in this world.
is it religious groups, governments, science (or education systems), or art even.
why are some people more gullible and easily influenced while others tend to be more critical. are the critical thinkers just as easily influenced by other types of influence?
images and sounds play a big part in our perceptions. combine those senses with things "speaking" to our "soul/heart" and there you have a huge influence.
or does our own personal experiences influence us the most? our own experiences are still filled with all kinds of outside influence.
how does one try and control a mass of people when there is no "one" way of influence. can one group control many types of influence (like music, tv, religion, school, business, language, govt.)
it's hard to think we freely form our own opinions. but i guess an opinion on anything had to start from some source...but was it discovered freely or derived from other influences and opinions?
sorry if all that was incoherent and jumpy. thinking about this really got me to thinking about why i believe the things that i believe.....and getting stuck asking why why why why why....pretty annoying.
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dorkus
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Re: influencing perception...propoganda [Re: TameMe]
#5294621 - 02/13/06 12:27 PM (17 years, 11 months ago) |
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Allow me to recommend you "Freedom from the known" by Jiddu Krishnamurti. I haven't read it myself, but probably cuts to the core of this.
To me it seems to be tangled and connected. Every aspect have influence (ie sixties revolt).
I think personal experience is what inluence the most, but our personal experiences are to a more or less degree filtered through all those "institutions" you mention.
And yes, I do believe one group can gain influence over terrifying numbers of influences. Allow us to brainwash you. Welcome to the Machine.
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blaze2
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Re: influencing perception...propoganda [Re: dorkus]
#5295251 - 02/13/06 03:05 PM (17 years, 11 months ago) |
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-------------------- "Religion without science is blind, Science without religion is lame." Albert Einstein "peace is not maintained through force it is acheived through intelligence." Albert Einstein "Those who desire to give up Freedom in order to gain Security, will not have, nor do they deserve, either one." Thomas Jefferson "To compel a man to furnish contributions of money for the propagation of opinions which he disbelieves and abhors, is sinful and tyrannical." --Thomas Jefferson
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Re: influencing perception...propoganda [Re: blaze2]
#5297254 - 02/13/06 09:55 PM (17 years, 11 months ago) |
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the more you recognize your social conditionings, the more that your perception becomes yours.
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MushmanTheManic
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Re: influencing perception...propoganda [Re: TameMe]
#5297267 - 02/13/06 09:59 PM (17 years, 11 months ago) |
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After you read Animal Farm, I recommend you read 1984. Its one of my favorite books and also deals with this subject. (In fact, basically, the entire books is about controlling perception.)
I think the amount a person is influenced by a group various from one individual to the next. A person like myself is much more likely to be influenced by science than art or politics, but other people who aren't as interested in science may be influenced more by the others. I think education has the greatest influence since it can shape our interests at an early age.
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