Emotions are very powerful in influencing peoples decisions. Marketing people understand this. Con-artists understand this. Politicians understand this. The main objective of the 'game' is to stir up a certain emotion in your target so that they will be more receptive to your message. For marketing this means generating a feeling of need by creating emotions that feed that feeling. Feelings like emptiness for example or lust or jealousy. Politicians usually play the "fear" card in hopes of getting people to respond to it by voting on them and their solution "to cure the fear".
We've all seen those censored pictures before; A celebrity walks around with half her chest exposed and where the nipple is supposed to be, they've photoshopped a little star. Never mind that you can see every part of her breast clear as day. Being able to trace every curved line with your eyes in detail, but no, that exposed areola, that is too taboo to show.
Why do I write about the things I write about 11.10.2011
Why do I write about the things I write about?
Because I believe that holding on to superstitious beliefs in an age such as we are living in right now is more damaging than it does good. (Yes, even if you don't actively harm anyone) I don't think anyone should express belief in something, support for something or claim truth about anything they can't sufficiently justify. (Pointing towards an irrational book written thousands of years ago isn't justification by the way.)
There are more reasons than just the ones I list here, but let's get crackin'
I recently noticed the above image in a facebook post. It says "The word of god is the medicine.!!". Hmm, really? I'm no betting man but I'm 98% sure that anyone who liked and shared that image takes actual medicine when they are sick.
Nobody who claims that their god is their medicine actually trusts on this medicine. Odd? Yes. No, don't thank the doctors and medical researchers for coming up with cures, thank God!
"But God touched every doctor out there to make the discovery they did!" really? That's a rather shortsighted statement.
Programmer, (free)thinker, father, husband, child at heart, atheist, rationalist. Some labels to throw out which I guess could define me.
Besides all of these things I'm someone who'd like to inspire change in people. A change in the way we think, a change in the way we relate to one another.
Emotions are very powerful in influencing peoples decisions. Marketing people understand this. Con-artists understand this. Politicians understand this. The main objective of the 'game' is to stir up a certain emotion in your target so that they will be more receptive to your message. For marketing this means generating a feeling of need by creating emotions that feed that feeling. Feelings like emptiness for example or lust or jealousy. Politicians usually play the "fear" card in hopes of getting people to respond to it by voting on them and their solution "to cure the fear".
