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  1. Pelosi just lays out another form of frame control bare bones. She calls it The Wrap-Up Smear. You have to see this video to believe she would openly say it out loud. Yet she does and nobody cares. (They will only care when the frame changes.) In Pelosi's frame control system (that is, Wrap-Up Smear system): 1. The politician smears a person to the press with lies and garbage. 2. The press prints it. 3. The politician then "merchandizes" the news stories wherever he or she can as validation for the smear. That means the false story--the smear--gets accepted as fact by the public at large. And the people who do it this way always know they are lying. As Pelosi said at the end, "It's a tactic." Michael
  2. Frame Control - Learn It, You're Gonna Need It Here in O-Land, we don't talk about things like frame control much. But Ayn Rand talked about it. She wrote about it. She did not call it frame control though. She talked about not accepting the premises of the opposing view and was more concerned about the moral substance inside the frame than the frame control itself. For example, see Argument from Intimidation. Before one can judge something correctly, one has to identify it correctly. And Rand never worked out for her readers what to do with frame control. Instead, she focused on condemning the substance within a frame when it was evil and walk away. That's OK if you don't want to persuade. But what if you want to get your ideas across? Besides, how do you walk away from the news media? After all, the fake news media is run on frame control. That's its main schtick. And look at the mess in the world that came as a result. So it's a good idea to learn how to handle frame control in general with a hardheaded person as something separate from talking about what is within the frame. So how do you do it? The technique is a simple 2-part process. 1. Keep the person engaged by allowing him to believe he is winning some kind of contest. 2. Refuse to enter his or her frame while you repeat your frame without budging. Jesse Peterson just gave a masterclass in how to do this. I don't know who his guest is. But, from the way the guest took the bait and behaved, its not important because he's not important. Enjoy. As an aside, Jesee allows the other guy to believe he is winning by appearing weak, not intelligent, odd way of talking, and so on. Trump allows others to believe they are winning from the opposite end. He projects being a big lout of a buffoon. Even today, people believe that is his own self-image and not a technique. And they do that while living within his frame time after time. How does he lead the fake news media around by the nose all the time? This is the secret. He allows them to think they are far superior to him, then he does not accept their premises or frame. Instead, he keeps repeating his own frame over and over and over--with and without variations. Wait. Say what? Both weak and strong work at winning? Well, step outside your own thinking for a sec. Don't worry. It will still be there when you get back. Now ask this. Why learn frame control without bothering to learn how to win the argument? The answer is easy and nobody ever talks about it. The person with the prevailing frame wins. He gets others to do what he wants them to do. And why would you want to do that if your thing is reason? Well, you might want to get the other person to do something different than normal. Say, you might want the person to consider your argument for real without the mind games. If that is the result you desire, then learn this technique. It will make your outcome easier by far. Incidentally, there are many things you could want the other person to do. And you are free to choose. You can get people to raise themselves up, or you can go off into sleazeland and take advantage of them. For example, pickup artists always talk about using frame control to get women in bed. What's worse, that's what they say they want even as they do it successfully. But at root, many don't even want that. They just want to stop feeling like losers. But there is a reality of frame control in rhetoric and persuasion and you must keep it in mind to learn--and become skilled at--frame control. In a discussion, the prevailing frame absorbs the weaker frame. Always. Sucks it right in. Slurp... Only one overall frame at a time is possible in any human interaction, especially between two people. The frame can change and seesaw, but the stronger and weaker cannot coexist at the same moment. One will be in control, and the one who controls that one will be in control of the interaction's result. This is too long a topic to go into why in the present context, so take this as you will. You are free to disagree or take it as is right now and look into it later. But this is why you have to dominate the other frame with your own frame when you discuss things with a hardheaded or ill-intentioned person. Only after you get your frame positioned as the stronger one, the prevailing one, should you argue your point of view with logic and emotion. That is, if you like to influence others. Maybe you like watching your words turn into unremembered dust and fall on the ground in front you you? Maybe, as time goes on, I--that is we--can add more examples of frame control to this thread. And, who knows, elaborate on techniques? It's a hell of a lot of fun to identify frame control at random times during the day once you're able to see it. Michael
  3. Ayn Rand Fan Club Ep 67: Ayn Rand and Star TrekView the full article
  4. SCOTUS is hearing oral arguments about Social Media getting censorship instructions from the government. Then this beauty popped. You have to hear it to believe it. Kentaji Brown Jackson has no business being on the bench in the United States of America. In Communist China or Cuba, maybe. But not in the USA. I wonder what the procedure is to impeach her. Michael
  5. S, These are on my to-do list. After reading almost everything Rand wrote, there is a little voice in the back of my mind that keeps wondering if the effort to read a book explaining what Rand meant ethics-wise will be a productive use of my time. I mean, Rand was clear from what I understood. I even adopted it as a worldview Also, there is that academic thing I do not value--not at all--due to the tribalism and elitism and agenda-mongering in higher education. I'm not trying to be a snob. These things cause a subconscious resistance in me to reading her books. But I will get to them. Hell, if I could go through parts of two of Binswanger's books (The Biological Basis of Teleological Concepts, and How We Know: Epistemology on an Objectivist Foundation), her books should be a breeze. Incidentally, I am no fan of the Binswanger books. We can go into why later if you want. I do like the work he did on joining ITOE to the workshop, though. Also, I have added so much more to my base in Rand, stuff from evolutionary biology--especially brain development, neuroscience, modern psychology, behavioral science, and story, I find books that derive their arguments from Rand as their starting point and presenting themselves as universal are limited for where I am going intellectually. Once again, I'm not being a snob, you plebeian. Michael
  6. B, I remember Don Hauptman making a splash with that some time ago. If I'm not mistaken, he even did an update. I never got close to Don for some reason. Nothing in particular why. We just passed by each other on the open seas and kept on sailing. Maybe someday... Michael
  7. It's worse than I thought. Look at this. Politico says having a good time at a Trump rally is the sign of a dictator normalizing his autocratic ways. Note: This pearl of wisdom is written by Michael Kruse, a senior staff writer at Politico and Politico Magazine. In on the Joke: The Comedic Trick Trump Uses to Normalize His Behavior His supporters love it. Critics call it a sign of his autocratic tendencies. Sorry, for some reason this does not embed like the other articles. So you have to click on the headline to read it. But here is a bit of it: I love that phrase: "... the mirth masks the menace." Menace for whom? Hmmmm?... Do you smell panic? I do. Besides, the people on the left love to use humor to humiliate those they do not like. But they themselves can't stand it if they are being laughed at by a huge audience they cannot dismiss. And an audience of voters who are throwing their sorry asses out of power is an audience they cannot dismiss. Even if I didn't feel like laughing, I have to laugh. This dude Kruse forgot to say that laughter is a symbol of racism and white supremacy. But never fear, it's coming. It's all they've got, poor things... What dorks... LOL... Michael
  8. Ah, come on. This is funny. You starve woke leftists by giving them seeds to grow their own food. LOL... Michael
  9. Man, all those people from back then are 60 years older... I don't want to think about it. Michael
  10. I wish I could say I look down my nose at this, but I don't. And I have conducted Beethoven, Mahler, Rachmaninoff, Mozart... What the hell is wrong with me? LOL... What a life... Michael
  11. The Deep State is a joke when they get panicked. All this lawfare against Trump is just that, panic and a joke. When the Deep State is incompetent, it has no equal. And Trump, himself, is having a good time with it. For those who don't know the backstory of the following clip. Fani Willis is the DA who has been prosecuting Trump in Georgia. She was moving right along until someone found out she hired her lover, embezzled funds and did some other do-nasties. So there was a hearing. They put her on the stand to explain herself and she was so arrogant, she turned off many on her own side. When they put her lover-boy-prosecutor on the stand, you get the clip below. They asked him if he had ever gone to a cabin with Fani. He literally took 15 seconds on the stand to answer. At any rate, with political maneuverings, Fani got to stay on the case, but lover-boy had to resign. Now, this case is all over except the yelling and tying up loose formality ends and everybody trying to cover their asses. Meanwhile, Trump shoved a big fat middle finger in their faces. He posted the following video meme on Truth Social. LOL... Michael
  12. Alex Jones just came out and said the prospect of WW3 has been dealt a blow. Germany ain't playing and that throws a bucket of cold water on Macron and other loonies who don't mind blowing up the planet. It's so odd seeing Alex say the world is OK. Dayaamm! Michael
  13. The more I study Bitcoin, the more I am 1,000% into it. And I see a huge opportunity. Explaining it in terms people can understand. The video below is cute, but it's based on truth. This is how the public in general responds to all the noise about Bitcoin. LOL... Michael
  14. On the other hand, Lara Trump is having the RNC hire Scott Pressler. You remember Scott? He's the guy who went around cleaning up trash-infected neighborhoods. Then he went out and personally registered more Republicans than the RNC did for years, just because he believed in what he was doing. Scott has super-long hair. He's gay. And he's not a big friend of sharia law (radical Muslims loathe him). Nobody on the MAGA side gives a crap about any of that. They love him for his belief in America and competence and willingness to act. In case you don't remember what Scott looks like, here ya' go. Scott was at the J6 rally, but did not go into the Capitol. I bet the Predator Class toadies at the DOJ are sick at heart they didn't arrest him. And I bet they will try now. If they do, that will generate even more votes for Trump and MAGA candidates. Michael