Prof Geoff on…
‘Gossip‘
Malicious gossip is a bitter pill indeed – but it’s only poisonous if you swallow it. The irony is that it is often those others, who it was not intended to damage, who swallow it whole and become a social side effect.
‘Tolerating the Intolerant’
As a cat my milk allergy is somewhat socially embarrassing, especially down at my Club – but it does give me ‘paws’ for thought. I am lactose intolerant, there I’ve said it but I am completely tolerant to others enjoying their milk products.
I do not however accept that they have any right by presumption of special ability (to drink milk unimpeded) that by slipping some milk or cream in my soy-based Brandy Alexander and thus causing me to vomit, that they are in fact ‘purging me of some evil’ an evil that I could not see from my intolerant perspective.
So, I conclude that I’m not intolerant, it’s just that what you like makes me sick.
‘PR = Private Rule’.
PR is everything.
The world is controlled by PR – literally, it is the public relations between individuals, counties and countries that determine our present and future. The real politicians are the PR agents and marketing execs who avoid being controlled by their public image in the press, by controlling the press themselves.
The problem is that, we don’t get to elect who these people are. In fact, the reason they exist is a self fulfilling prophecy – to be a leader you need a public image, to get a public image you licence ideas and hire resources from PR agents. They give it to you for money, they can take it away. They forever hold you to ransom.
What of Private Relations? Are these the stuff of Revolution? Is this why PR invades our homes via the TV? Is it further clandestine control measures?
‘Damage Limitation’ is essentially the issue of a counter story to combat or negate the first. This is a war of plausibility and the linguistic weapons are aimed dead set at the credibility of the other and gullibility of everyone else.
Whichever story can be sustained, wins.
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