Why Obama is doing what he is doing. I am hyper today and wrote this in response to a question on mish's thread-lol:
Here is the problem RJA. You sound like you think along these lines.
Science has learned people respond to emotions more than logic or facts. Digressing briefly-lol, our minds are constructed more for pattern recognition than sequential logic; and respond more to emotions than facts and logic.
Karl Rove et all, know that, and Obama has learned that-lol; so all that the campaigns are about today, is negative campaigning, lipstick on a pig and lying. No honest discussion of facts or problems!!! AT ALL. Voters do not respond to facts or logic.
So the politicians have learned negative advertising works much much better than logic or facts, so now everyone lies and instead of facts and logic they put a mirror to the people and say "vote for me I am like you", which is to get the emotional reaction"----"see I am like you"---- "a hocky mom who knows nothing about government, but who needs knowledge, I am so cool-lol.
So we cannot blame the politicans, we need to blame the people. Politicians are just reacting to what people react too.
Regarding population, we cannot do anything about it because religion and culture are at the very foundation of population control and also at the foundation of our thinking ie. emotions.
The one thing no one can discuss anywhere, is religion and then ones culturre, yet what variables are more correlated to population growth than religion and culture??
We humans are at the apex of our very survival and I do not think we are going to make it because we are not hard wired to face reality unless it is a charging lion.
We can deal with a charging lion with calm focus-lol. But not our emotions!!
James Joyce said it best: "it takes the fiercest sort of courage to face reality".
PS Russia and China have always been a much larger threat to us than Iraq (which was never anything more than a little brush fire), yet where did we spend all our money and grind down our military. Iraq, while russia and china gained on us quietly. Iraq was sold to us emotionally!!!!!!!!
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