Re: Good climate change skeptics

Posted by Marcus G. Daniels on Sep 23, 2015; 9:54pm
URL: http://friam.383.s1.nabble.com/Good-climate-change-skeptics-tp7586673p7586702.html

"My claim is the truly powerful do _not_ manipulate in the way you're describing.  They are more surgical in their methods.  The power gained by your coarser manipulation is temporary and fickle.  The power gained by steadily punching holes in convictions is more permanent."

Persuasion happens between minds.  What you are describing is not scalable.    The surgical intervention has to be done on the right people, not individuals of low conviction.   They just fall in line to the right manipulator.  

Marcus

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