Become familiar with all "Narratives". Today's cultural woke chaos reminds one of a street fair magician, waiving one hand in the air to attract the crowds attention, but with the other hand he is devaluing the currency, greatly increasing taxes, and possibly moving from currency to digital social credits, where you own nothing, and the magician controls everything. There is no limit to human greed for power and wealth. Go down all the rabbit holes to see what others are thinking: duckduckgo "Europa The Last Battle", Farrakhan, Left and Right sources, etc. Become educated, not indoctrinated, in ideas and extremists across the entire spectrum before the Internet is thoroughly regulated. Who is the enemy? If you don't know how the enemy thinks, how can you defend the values of your "Narrative"?
Hiring a Public Relations "word" fighter to win a battle for the minds of the ignorant sounds like a great idea. Maybe it is, but perhaps further thought (pardon the concept but "ideas" the very thing this article promotes) as to purpose and result. Ideas by themselves don't mean much. Every human being has hundreds of thousands of them in a lifetime...and almost none of them impact that person's...much less the population's...life or lives much, if at all. What seems far more important is the motivation(s) for ideas. And those fall into two basic categories with 4 outcomes: Good vs Bad; and Moral vs Immoral. As long as the Public Relation's War goes on no real...final...decision regarding either category is resolved. A Word War has little lasting result: Did Goebbels' efforts work, How about Dr. Martin Luther King's...and others. It can be argued that word wars have only one result: they tend to release pent up anger that otherwise could have resulted in violence. Case in point: the French revolution! Another: The Russian Revolution! There is one outlier: The American Revolution...because there the war of words did directly lead to that violent action to gain Independence. But in the other two, the shutting down of word wars allowed emotions and anger to build until there was the ultimate violence, the result of which declared which was the "winner" and as such declared to be both "good" and "moral" (we are not talking about truth here, but historical labels which tend to be total fiction). My point is that...and this is certainly not original...words are cheap except when paying a Public Relations Professional and generally just prolong the dissatisfaction of both sides. A better choice would be to, as President Biden once opined, take the leaders of any two sides (in the proffered case, Biden and Trump), put them in a closed, locked room and whoever survives is declared the winner and his or her ideas to be...for the moment at least...declared "right" and "moral." Ultimate winner, ultimate power, conflict resolved...at least until tomorrow's headline is due, right? The "idea" thing is only of real interest to pacifists who want to study or argue the "idea" of conflict, then break for coffee...or high tea!
Yes!
Ideas to win! Ideas on what do after the win! Ideas on how to maintain the win!
Offense!
Become familiar with all "Narratives". Today's cultural woke chaos reminds one of a street fair magician, waiving one hand in the air to attract the crowds attention, but with the other hand he is devaluing the currency, greatly increasing taxes, and possibly moving from currency to digital social credits, where you own nothing, and the magician controls everything. There is no limit to human greed for power and wealth. Go down all the rabbit holes to see what others are thinking: duckduckgo "Europa The Last Battle", Farrakhan, Left and Right sources, etc. Become educated, not indoctrinated, in ideas and extremists across the entire spectrum before the Internet is thoroughly regulated. Who is the enemy? If you don't know how the enemy thinks, how can you defend the values of your "Narrative"?
Hiring a Public Relations "word" fighter to win a battle for the minds of the ignorant sounds like a great idea. Maybe it is, but perhaps further thought (pardon the concept but "ideas" the very thing this article promotes) as to purpose and result. Ideas by themselves don't mean much. Every human being has hundreds of thousands of them in a lifetime...and almost none of them impact that person's...much less the population's...life or lives much, if at all. What seems far more important is the motivation(s) for ideas. And those fall into two basic categories with 4 outcomes: Good vs Bad; and Moral vs Immoral. As long as the Public Relation's War goes on no real...final...decision regarding either category is resolved. A Word War has little lasting result: Did Goebbels' efforts work, How about Dr. Martin Luther King's...and others. It can be argued that word wars have only one result: they tend to release pent up anger that otherwise could have resulted in violence. Case in point: the French revolution! Another: The Russian Revolution! There is one outlier: The American Revolution...because there the war of words did directly lead to that violent action to gain Independence. But in the other two, the shutting down of word wars allowed emotions and anger to build until there was the ultimate violence, the result of which declared which was the "winner" and as such declared to be both "good" and "moral" (we are not talking about truth here, but historical labels which tend to be total fiction). My point is that...and this is certainly not original...words are cheap except when paying a Public Relations Professional and generally just prolong the dissatisfaction of both sides. A better choice would be to, as President Biden once opined, take the leaders of any two sides (in the proffered case, Biden and Trump), put them in a closed, locked room and whoever survives is declared the winner and his or her ideas to be...for the moment at least...declared "right" and "moral." Ultimate winner, ultimate power, conflict resolved...at least until tomorrow's headline is due, right? The "idea" thing is only of real interest to pacifists who want to study or argue the "idea" of conflict, then break for coffee...or high tea!