Posted on 10/20/2008 10:09:18 AM PDT by spaced
I would imagine it is easy to hypnotize morons...
None of it is new to politics.
Freepers have noticed this since the primaries. It also helps that George Lakoff is one of Obama’s speechwriters and consultants. Someone needs to rewrite this as more an academic sounding versus conspiratorial sounding paper- it will hit undecided voters better.
I’ve always suspected I couldn’t be hypnotized. This clinches it. It must be why his speeches are so damn irritating to me to have to sit through and listen. He never says anything, just drones on and on...
Dr. Milton Erickson, M.D. was a remarkable guy. I would be hesitant to rush forward and say that Obama is really using these techniques, but it’s an intriguing possibility.
Well that explains Chrisy shiver up his leg.
Norman Thomas, six-time Socialist Party presidential candidate and one of the founders of the ACLU
Now listen very closely, “Uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh....”
It's the cadence that is so hypnotic...it keeps you from concentrating on the message and the fact there isn't one.
I actually have been hypnotized, and I was quite an easy subject, but I also find Obama irritating to listen to. I’m reading thru the article, but it’s long, it will take me awhile!
Barack Obama received at least some instruction in the Islamic faith of his father and went with him to the mosque, but the importance of this experience is vastly overstated by conservative commentators who seek to portray Obama as a Muslim of sorts. Radical anti-Americanism, rather than Islam, was the reigning faith in the Dunham household. ...
Barack Obama is a clever fellow who imbibed hatred of America with his mother's milk, but worked his way up the elite ladder of education and career. He shares the resentment of Muslims against the encroachment of American culture, although not their religion. He has the empathetic skill set of an anthropologist who lives with his subjects, learns their language, and elicits their hopes and fears while remaining at emotional distance. That is, he is the political equivalent of a sociopath. The difference is that he is practicing not on a primitive tribe but on the population of the United States.
There is nothing mysterious about Obama's methods. "A demagogue tries to sound as stupid as his audience so that they will think they are as clever as he is," wrote Karl Krauss. Americans are the world's biggest suckers, and laugh at this weakness in their popular culture. Listening to Obama speak, Sinclair Lewis' cynical tent-revivalist Elmer Gantry comes to mind, or, even better, Tyrone Power's portrayal of a carnival mentalist in the 1947 film noire Nightmare Alley. The latter is available for instant viewing at Netflix, and highly recommended as an antidote to having felt uplifted by an Obama speech. ..."
Article: Obama's women reveal his secret
http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Front_Page/JB26Aa01.html
From Rules for Radicals, Alinsky outlines his strategy in organizing, writing:
"There's another reason for working inside the system. Dostoevsky said that taking a new step is what people fear most. Any revolutionary change must be preceded by a passive, affirmative, non-challenging attitude toward change among the mass of our people. They must feel so frustrated, so defeated, so lost, so futureless in the prevailing system that they are willing to let go of the past and change the future. This acceptance is the reformation essential to any revolution."[2]
[2] Saul Alinsky, The Latter Rain
http://latter-rain.com/ltrain/alinski.htm
Ya think, Norman? Maybe for a little while, Norman . .
Norman hasn’t reckoned on Joe the Plumber, Joe the Hunter, Joe the Electrician, Joe the Carpenter, Joe the Welder, or Twinkie the Disgruntled . . .
That's why I've always found a certain style of preaching immensely repugnant. It seems to me to be an attempt to turn the congregants' minds off ... get them jumping and shouting "AMEN!!!" to anything.
This explains why every time I’m listening to one of Obama’s speeches, I feel this overwhelming desire to travel to a long-defunct New Jersey drive-in movie theater to buy some popcorn.
Thought this was interesting that a nlp trainer noticed this about Obama back in Jan., 2008
http://www.alwayswow.com/archive/2008/01/obamas_use_of_l.html
January 07, 2008
Obama’s use of linguistic language patterns in his victory speech
Barack Obama’s victory speech after the Iowa Caucus election contains quite a bit of powerful linguistic language patterns.
While I am not going to elaborate it all in detail, let me give you some great examples of how strong his rethoric actually is:
“You know, they said this day would never come. They said our sights were set too high. They said this country was too divided, too disillusioned to ever come together around a common purpose.”
The ‘you know’ does not address anybody specifically, but it causes us to go inside and feel addressed. Inside of us, we have to simply agree. Then, the “They” part, unspecified, builds a frame - us versus them, but since he speaks to supporters, well, he captures their emotions, their committments and connection to him.
In his speech, he builds a lot of pictures, such as when he says that “you have done what the state of New Hampshire can do in five days. You have done what America can do in this new year, 2008. In lines that stretched around schools and churches, in small towns and in big cities, you came together as Democrats, Republicans and independents, to stand up and say that we are one nation. We are one people. And our time for change has come.”
We all can see these lines and queues in our head now, can we not? Also, he starts with future pacing, putting people into the future, making them realise that in 2008, there will be change.
He then also keeps contrast framing against his opponents, without mentioning them by name. “We are choosing hope over fear. We’re choosing unity over division.” And further: “ The time has come for a president who will be honest about the choices and the challenges we face, who will listen to you and learn from you, even when we disagree, who won’t just tell you what you want to hear, but what you need to know.”
There is much more in his speech and I like it a lot. The way he contrasts his opponents, integrates his supporters, and creates the future.
Toward the end of the speech, he says: “Years from now, you’ll look back and you’ll say that this was the moment, this was the place where America remembered what it means to hope.”
Future pacing again together with a nearly classical sales script. He is like the salesman, who states that “yes, Mr. Jones felt the same as you did, about the high price, but in 6 months time, when you look back at this moment, you will realise ....”
May be the US is a country tranced out by a new candidate for a President. Obama’s linguistic skills are great, way better than his current counterpart.
I am curious how he will continue his journey to the White House.
Andreas Dorn - Asia Mind Dynamics
I imagine the techniques could be used for evil easy enough...
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