Reggie Watts - Word Salad.

[Woodsman]

I ran across this comedian/musician's performance and found it an interesting, subversive example of how those NLP creeps and other hypnotic speakers ply their trade. Anybody who has watched a bunch of TED talks can appreciate the humor.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UXyHf_SpUUI

It might have been good if he included a few words (without irony) about what he was doing, but it definitely served to illustrate some of the ways in which B.S. media gets into people's heads in a manipulative way.

I don't know how effective his approach was, given that after delivering exactly one of those canned bits of B.S. (thanking the audience for making him feel at home), the audience cheered on cue to the stimulus without recognizing that he was being ironic.

Near the end, he even used the opening technique, (confusing people so that they are forced to listen very closely), to deliver one direct message, using clearly understandable words, about there being no excuses to not research.

How do you deal with a public so easily manipulated? Do you manipulate for their own benefit? Is that any better? And what's the point?

 

[Approaching Infinity]

How do you deal with a public so easily manipulated? Do you manipulate for their own benefit? Is that any better? And what's the point?

Well, people don't change their minds on anything based on reason, at least in general. I think the problem is that so-called manipulation techniques are used almost exclusively by people who don't have other people's best wishes in mind.

As for if it's any better, I'd just say that I think humans have a real function in the cosmos, and we are not fulfilling it. Is it worth it to influence people to act more in line with that higher function or purpose? I think it might be. At least then they might have the capacity of developing their own discernment. As it is, they are so inured in the dross of this world that nothing is possible for them.

 

[Ruth]

Also a person who actually challenged the status quo would come under attack and not be allowed to be successful. I was a bit confused over whether he was poking fun at academic types, new age types or just the general public. Probably the last two if he considers himself an academic.