Cognitive Politics

Oakland Square -- proof, suggest, help me improve this flyer

Posted Sat, 10/29/2011 - 10:41 by Stephen

Download first draft as PDF or doc -- edit, steal content, print and hand out my version or yours, send me improvements!

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The intended outcome of marketing fear

Posted Sun, 08/14/2011 - 13:05 by Stephen

Today Seth Godin wrote:

Years ago, the authorities [that would be Bush, Cheney] decided that a key weapon in the war on terror (sic) would be to make people more afraid.

Two reasons for this: if you make potential bad guys afraid , they might not move up and graduate to become actual bad guys [make suicide bombers afraid?], and ... at least it looks like you were trying.

September 12, 2001 and the decade after

Posted Sun, 09/12/2010 - 11:43 by Stephen

Think back to September 12, 2001. We were in shock. The world was mourning with us. The world, for a moment, knew a bit more about how wrong war was. Remember the posts about Jews and Arabs pulling each other out of the chaos of the explosions -- how much we chose to bounce emails about positive stories to each other? Remember the news covering how someone from almost every nation on earth was murdered in the attack?

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