tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post2109493815832917241..comments2024-03-29T04:06:37.402-07:00Comments on Had Enough Therapy?: When the Dream FailsStuart Schneidermanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12784043736879991769noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-50445304731381721822016-06-11T03:37:12.836-07:002016-06-11T03:37:12.836-07:00Ares Olympus @June 10, 2016 at 11:59 PM:
Uh-huh. ...Ares Olympus @June 10, 2016 at 11:59 PM:<br /><br />Uh-huh. Ignatius Acton Chesterton OCDhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18222603717128565302noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-54415872557620884912016-06-10T23:49:39.485-07:002016-06-10T23:49:39.485-07:00IAC: You and others who share your thinking have n...IAC: You and others who share your thinking have no idea what you look and sound like when talking about Donald Trump. You think him a buffoon, yet you become so unglued and unhinged when considering anything about him. There's something incongruent there. I must confess observing this phenomenon is one of the my guilty pleasures in this campaign. Lefties and liberals have always thought themselves so smart and above it all. Ah, schadenfreude.<br /><br />I find your pleasure curious, but whatever works for you.<br /><br />I am curious about my own dislike of Trump and perhaps Dilbert comic Scott Adams can help:<br />https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/comic-riffs/wp/2016/03/21/donald-trump-will-win-in-a-landslide-the-mind-behind-dilbert-explains-why/<br />------<br /> On the stump, the real-estate mogul is not running on the knowledge of his numbers or the dissection of the data. He is running on our emotions, Adams says, and sly appeals to our own human irrationality. Since last August, in fact, when many were calling Trump’s entry a clown candidacy, the “Dilbert” cartoonist was already declaring The Donald a master in the powers of persuasion who would undoubtedly rise in the polls. And last week, Adams began blogging about how Trump can rhetorically dismantle Clinton’s candidacy next.<br /><br />... Most simply put: Adams believes Trump will win because he’s “a master persuader.”<br /><br />The Manhattan mogul is so deft at the powers of persuasion, Adams believes, that the candidate could have run as a Democrat and, by picking different hot-button issues, still won this presidency. In other words: Trump is such a master linguistic strategist that he could have turned the political chessboard around and still embarrassed the field.<br /><br />Here is what Candidate Trump is doing to win campaign hearts and minds, according to Scott Adams:<br />1. Trump knows people are basically irrational.<br />2. Knowing that people are irrational, Trump aims to appeal on an emotional level.<br />3. By running on emotion, facts don’t matter.<br />4. If facts don’t matter, you can’t really be “wrong.”<br />5. With fewer facts in play, it’s easier to bend reality.<br />6. To bend reality, Trump is a master of identity politics — and identity is the strongest persuader.<br />------<br /><br />It seems a good list, and explains why I dislike Trump, because he exploits people's weakness for a good story and disregard for reality.<br /><br />And I also believe Trump could have run as a Democrat, although I admit its hard to imagine how good of a magician Trump really is. I mean we know selling himself to evangelicals is like stealing candy from a baby, but could that same technique really work on the left? Of course I really don't understand how evangelicals are so gullible either, while I understand many on the left are also gullible in their own echo chambers.<br /><br />As a last attempt to close topics "When dreams fail", the letter writer admitted she wasn't doing a good job and was fired, while Trump's game for the Presidency does seem to be based on the audacity of apathy from truth. <br /><br />For Trump, if he can say anything and as long as its dramatic, he gains attention, and all attention is good. Trump and the Mass Media love for spectacle can just keep working their pied piper routine and we can avoid all serious conversation for the duration of the presidential election. Somehow I imagine the Elites even appreciate this distraction.<br /><br />If the American People really say to Trump on November 3, "You're fired." Perhaps he can write to the New Yorker with his sob story and Polly can say "Congratulations on losing your job!" and end with the same advice:<br />------<br />Sometimes you hate yourself only because you secretly love yourself a lot and you don’t want to dare to give yourself what you truly desire. But the more you give to yourself, the more you give to everyone around you and lift up your friends and your family and complete strangers, too.<br />------<br /><br />Anyway, advice like that sounds very close to Trump-logic, so I'm sure it'll console him. Ares Olympushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09726811306826601686noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-31497553162730186562016-06-10T07:28:59.756-07:002016-06-10T07:28:59.756-07:00Dennis @June 10, 2016 at 5:35 AM:
Laughing is the...Dennis @June 10, 2016 at 5:35 AM:<br /><br />Laughing is the best therapy. Otherwise, as we Irish say, we'd all cry.<br /><br />"Far too many people like Ares think the job, the organization, et al is all about them and the consumer be DAMNED."<br /><br />This is actually one of the problems of crony capitalism and government's de-facto endorsement of monopolies being in "the public interest." When you look at the most atrocious customer service standards, you see companies like Comcast who change their company name to Xfinity thinking the consumer is that dumb. People hate Comcast, and one of the reasons for the lack of investment in set-top box-type cable service is all the lobbying tech/media companies do to have government protect their turf through limited spectrum sales, etc. The concentration of media ownership occurs to prop up profits. Fine, that's the "free market." But what these companies then do is collude with government to create massive barriers to entry.<br /><br />So, in the end, it's all these "experts," regulators and other smart people who think they know what's best for us. But what government does is ossify technology and make large broadband/transmission companies into cash-rich monopolies, and the consumer faces limited choice. Yes, these industries require huge capital investments to operate at that kind of scale, but small, nimble entrepreneurs don't want to mimic that kind of size and scope... they generally want to concentrate in one geographic area or type of service. They're stopped because of regulation that's co-created by their competitors and their own government. It's ridiculous.<br /><br />There is a lot of complaining about "failing institutions" these days, at all levels of society. The reason institutions are failing is because (a) they're run by individuals operating in the context of a hedonistically individualistic society; and (b) the institutions themselves are interested in their own preservation rather than their mission to serve the customer/consumer. We blame the "institutions" when we should really look at ourselves... they're a reflection of US. That's the "blind leading the blind."Ignatius Acton Chesterton OCDhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18222603717128565302noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-7884627515614421292016-06-10T05:35:24.475-07:002016-06-10T05:35:24.475-07:00IAC,
If I can stop laughing for a minute I will ...IAC,<br /><br />If I can stop laughing for a minute I will comment. There my eyes are still watering a bit, but I wonder when you were going to address Ares' lack of maturity in his responses. One wonders if Trump resides in his head? Wait a minute I went back a reread your comment "And your last paragraph completely validates sestamimbi's cultural concerns, at least in your case: "I'll say sestamimbi started it..." Where are we, in kindergarten recess?" and the laughing continued again.<br />Thank you again for appealing to one of my guilty pleasures.<br />This does seem like the "blind leading the blind" It has been my experience that people who get fired created that results. Most employers spend a lot of money, time and effort on people they hire to turn around a fire them. Just not good business. In Trump's case he seems to have a lot of employees who regard him highly as opposed to the occasional person who does not. As an NCO and as a Systems Security Officer I have helped put people in the brig and fired from contractors. It is life and I suspect that they did not like me. Leadership requires actions that one may not like, but are required to maintain a highly effective and efficient organization that can meet the exigencies of the assigned mission. Far too many people like Ares think the job, the organization, et al is all about them and the consumer be DAMNED.<br />The appalling aspect here is the poor advise coming from the New York magazine. Did this person actually believe that any of this was going to help?<br />Dennishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14962996070458991675noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-79126065260124643412016-06-10T04:15:47.730-07:002016-06-10T04:15:47.730-07:00Ares Olympus @June 9, 2016 at 6:52 PM:
I see we&#...Ares Olympus @June 9, 2016 at 6:52 PM:<br /><br />I see we're back in a familiar place. Ares mocks others because he is so wise and morally magnificent, and gets testy when his own words are used to counter his flimsy, snide arguments and attempts at moral equivalence. So sad. <br /><br />And your last paragraph completely validates sestamimbi's cultural concerns, at least in your case: "I'll say sestamimbi started it..." Where are we, in kindergarten recess?<br /><br />You and others who share your thinking have no idea what you look and sound like when talking about Donald Trump. You think him a buffoon, yet you become so unglued and unhinged when considering anything about him. There's something incongruent there. I must confess observing this phenomenon is one of the my guilty pleasures in this campaign. Lefties and liberals have always thought themselves so smart and above it all. Ah, schadenfreude.Ignatius Acton Chesterton OCDhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18222603717128565302noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-9904967601876445532016-06-09T18:52:57.545-07:002016-06-09T18:52:57.545-07:00IAC, if you're right, then Trump is the perfec...IAC, if you're right, then Trump is the perfect antidote to Hillary. He can beat her at her own game because he's clever and equally shameless about using power.<br /><br />And I agree overt aggression is refreshing, and especially attractive if it's directed against people you also don't like.<br /><br />In any election outcome we all lose, but still I'm quite sure Trump will be the more flagrant dictator. And Trump has promised he'll use Obama's EO usage as a benchmark for his own "benevolent" power grabs.<br />http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/265371-trump-obama-led-the-way-on-executive-orders<br />------<br />"I won't refuse it. I'm going to do a lot of things," Trump said when asked if he would use executive orders...<br /><br />“I mean, he’s led the way, to be honest with you,” he added, referring to Obama.<br /><br />The Republican primary front-runner said his executive orders, unlike the president’s, will be for the “right things.”<br /><br />“But I’m going to use them much better and they’re going to serve a much better purpose than he’s done,” he said.<br />------<br /><br />But oops, all of this is off topic, except for the fact the sorry letter writer was fired from her job, which is Trump's specialty. <br /><br />Okay, well, that's not very close. I'll say sestamibi started it with his "pussified culture" which reminds my literal-mind brain of Trump's hair.<br />Ares Olympushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09726811306826601686noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-39660000405052643962016-06-09T16:43:30.731-07:002016-06-09T16:43:30.731-07:00Ares Olympus @June 9, 2016 at 2:14 PM:
Ares, you...Ares Olympus @June 9, 2016 at 2:14 PM: <br /><br />Ares, you are remarkable. It is curious who you choose to convict and who you choose to acquit. <br /><br />As if precious little Hillary doesn't hit people back with great viciousness. Ask Vince Foster. Oh, that's right... you can't. Slander? Are you serious? Look what Hillary did to Monica Lewinsky and the other "bimbos" (her words for women who actually would have sex with Bill). You are so silly. "Unlimited retribution and slander" is but an appetizer when you're up against the Clintons. <br /><br />That, and I thought you said they was no "objective reality." You're certainly proof of that. <br /><br />What a fool you are. Go back to your old blog. It needs you. Spare us. Please. Ignatius Acton Chesterton OCDhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18222603717128565302noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-71581092093111910582016-06-09T14:14:10.813-07:002016-06-09T14:14:10.813-07:00sestamibi, wow, I was thinking the same thing abou...sestamibi, wow, I was thinking the same thing about President Trump, at least about "accusations = convictions".<br /><br />Trump considers his "pwecious widdle feewings" and opinions to be the only objective reality, so anyone who disagrees must be doing it to hurt him, and therefore they deserve unlimited retribution and slander that he can get away with.<br />http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2016/06/the-problem-with-calling-out-judges-for-their-race/485732/<br /><br />"My motto is: Always get even. When somebody screws you, screw them back in spade." - Donald J. Trump, Think BIG and Kick Ass in Business and Life <br /><br />Ares Olympushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09726811306826601686noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-22085737393906073762016-06-09T13:17:24.121-07:002016-06-09T13:17:24.121-07:00This is all characteristic of the pussified cultur...This is all characteristic of the pussified culture in which we live, where life must be all bliss all the time, everyone (or at least everyone with a vagina) must never be offended and have her pwecious widdle feewings hurt, and no risk is ever worth it. As if it wasn't bad enough that this has motivated public policy for at least 30 years, when Hillary is president it will become turbocharged. Get set for accusation = conviction for rape charges, abortions at Catholic hospitals, and same-sex weddings at the Westboro Baptist Church. <br /><br />sestamibihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03713681322114049960noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-28374310760842140532016-06-09T09:55:59.865-07:002016-06-09T09:55:59.865-07:00The "advice" is certainly horrible, but ...The "advice" is certainly horrible, but its almost justified by the sweepingly hollow letter. There are not even any questions. It's all narrative. It's more like a plea "Please comfort me." while there's no more useful propaganda left in this path.<br /><br />Lately I've been thinking self-pity might be the greatest sin of mankind because it enables passivity or wrong action like blame.<br /><br />Perhaps perhaps I'd go with Byron Katie, and her "The Work" to try to help, but that requires an interactive process, not "advice".<br />https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byron_Katie#Process<br />--------<br />The Work is a way of identifying and questioning any stressful thought. It consists of four questions and a turnaround. This is a way of experiencing the opposite of what you believe. The four questions are:<br />1. Is it true?<br />2. Can you absolutely know that it's true?<br />3. How do you react, what happens, when you believe that thought? and<br />4. Who would you be without the thought?<br />--------<br /><br />What do you become when you realize every story you've told about yourself and the world is objectively false?<br /><br />But even if the self-lies can be deconstructed, perhaps it would take someone like a life coach to help find out what's true in the here and now, where constructive action can be made.Ares Olympushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09726811306826601686noreply@blogger.com