Posted on 07/30/2016 8:49:28 AM PDT by OddLane
A brilliant exposition of what's wrong with our society by one of my favorite modern philosophers.
>>It’s the ones that have the “squeaky clean” image that you find out later are much worse in private.
It doesn’t take much more than common sense to see the connection between the Wilson Boy’s psychosis and the folks they were doing bidness with.
http://www.google.com/?gws_rd=ssl#q=Wilson+Psychosis+Beach+Boys
Even the “christian” music bidness is notorious for the escapades that unfold on the road and elsewhere.
http://www.google.com/?gws_rd=ssl#q=Christian+Music+adultery
The common denominator is that music becomes all about the fame and money and temporal rewards that come from the worship of recordings - instead of being a living process for the edification of the body of Christ, having the purpose called out in Psalm 22:3.
Does God inhabit the praises of the music bidness?
Rush-The Spirit Of Radio (Lyrics)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jQUDiCiNlqQ
Begin the day with a friendly voice
A companion, unobtrusive
Plays the song that’s so elusive
And the magic music makes your morning mood
Off on your way, hit the open road
There is magic at your fingers
For the spirit ever lingers
Undemanding contact in your happy solitude
Invisible airwaves crackle with life
Bright antennae bristle with the energy
Emotional feedback on timeless wavelength
Bearing a gift beyond price, almost free
All this machinery making modern music
Can still be open-hearted
Not so coldly charted it’s really just
A question of your honesty, yeah, your honesty
One likes to believe in the freedom of music
But glittering prizes and endless compromises
Shatter the illusion of integrity, yeah
Invisible airwaves crackle with life
Bright antennae bristle with the energy
Emotional feedback on timeless wavelength
Bearing a gift beyond price, almost free
For the words of the prophets were written on the studio wall
Concert hall
And echoes with the sound of salesmen
Of salesmen, of salesmen
Familiar music tells an emotional story in which each listener will find a way to relate and then associate it with another message when done properly.
This is another aspect of this. Liberals are far more emotionally tuned in to their audience. Liars are exceptionally good at reading their marks, and they can often tell how far to push their narrative and whether their mark is buying it.
Liberals play people's emotional fiddles, and they are generally much better at it than are practical minded people.
FWIW,
I’ve been in Sales for much of my life and I’m very familiar with most of the tactics taught and used.
On balance, I’m not a very good “Salesman”. I simply can’t lie or misrepresent, mislead or intimidate. My success has come from having an intelligent conversations with intelligent people and guiding them to the logical conclusion. I’m all business and I can’t pretend that I care about their dog that just died.
Sales tactics will continue to evolve as prospects learn and grow over time and then revert back to playing on peoples fear and greed.
It’s no different than politics.
There is some talent overlap, but I think salesman have to be more practically oriented when selling products than people are when selling movies or music.
The appeal of movies and music are to the more emotional section of the brain. In salesmanship, things like color and style (such as in cars) serve this purpose, but the dominant factor is functionality for it's intended purpose.
I think we started off on the same page but I may have lost you.
Movies and Music are very powerful tools for invoking an emotional response and can be used very effectively when selling an idea. Politics is an idea, and that is what is being sold. Ideas are intangibles with little practical value and certainly no immediate gratification. Hope and Change are left to the buyer to be defined.
The best Politicians will not allow themselves to be defined. At least not by their opponents.
Give this a view.
Start With Why - Simon Sinek TED talk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sioZd3AxmnE
Thanks, i’ll check it out.
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