Media Anchoring & Science of Perception Mgmt

[reggie]

[Adeptus]

Re: Media Anchoring & Science of Perception Mgmt

I'll have to make some time to watch the other videos. This was very educational for those that never studied psychology and logic. Thanks for sharing :-)

[Forrest]

Re: Media Anchoring & Science of Perception Mgmt

I think that this is why we speak so fluently of 'spin' these days. However, I never considered that there was a specific, causal arrangement in propaganda, particularly in directing perception of an event.

On the other hand, I would call directed perception a lie, and henceforth of an evil quality, since I assume a causal event for the universe existing.

[reggie]

Re: Media Anchoring & Science of Perception Mgmt

I think that this is why we speak so fluently of 'spin' these days. However, I never considered that there was a specific, causal arrangement in propaganda, particularly in directing perception of an event.

On the other hand, I would call directed perception a lie, and henceforth of an evil quality, since I assume a causal event for the universe existing.

Oh, it is most definitely "directed" and "evil" of the highest order.

Here's more from the same guy...

And you might find this interview of interest... intro paragraph published here:

On Evil: An Interview with Alain Badiou
Christoph Cox, Molly Whalen, and Alain Badiou
http://cabinetmagazine.org/issues/5/alainbadiou.php


In philosophy and psychoanalytic theory, evil is back. The question of evil is, of course, an old and venerable one in Western philosophy, having fascinated philosophers from Socrates and Augustine through Leibniz and Kant. For much of this history, “the question of evil” was a theological one: If God is beneficent and omnipotent, why does he allow there to be such evil in the world? After Kant, philosophy largely severed its ties with theology, and, with that, the question of evil receded. Evil seemed no longer to be a question for philosophy, but instead became a question for psychiatry, sociology, and biology. Yet, in the past few years, a loosely connected group of philosophers and theorists, influenced by the work of Kant and Jacques Lacan, has returned to the question of evil. Among these is Alain Badiou, who in 1993 published Ethics: An Essay on the Understanding of Evil. An analysis, critique, and reformulation of the discourse of evil in contemporary thought, the work rejected both the theological and the scientific (psychological, sociological, etc.) interpretations of evil, instead locating good and evil in the very structure of human subjectivity, agency, and freedom. Christoph Cox and Molly Whalen interviewed Badiou by email in July–August 2001. Badiou asked to add the final paragraphs of his interview after the events of 11 September.