by Hugh Manatee Wins » Thu Oct 05, 2006 1:45 pm
<!--EZCODE QUOTE START--><blockquote><strong><em>Quote:</em></strong><hr>back to the subject of millitary garb in fashion, what are your thoughts on the fact that keffiyeh scarves are currently in fashion here in the UK amongst young people who probably are more or less clueless about the situation in the middle east?<hr></blockquote><!--EZCODE QUOTE END--><br><br>Interesting. I wonder if there is a generalized anti-war sentiment being focused on Israel due to Blair's tagging along with Bush for 5 years and the recent bombing of Lebanon. People do act out their hunches and emotions with specific acts that are subconsciously processed.<br><br>And frequently they are given props to do it with that satisfy their emotions without looking beyond their need to express themselves. Example: Americans have been sold bumper stickers that say "Support Our Troops" which is meaningless but satisfies some emotional need to connect to the War on Terra.<br><br>Marketers call this use of trinkets the "first commitment" tactic to sell bigger things later. Sympathy for our young troops in "harm's way" is being slippery-sloped towards the war itself.<br><br>Principle of psychological warfare's Divide and Conquer tactic-<br>" People need visible targets for their frustrations."<br>And emotions are transferable just as American's 9/11 anger towards Afghanistan was carefully transferred to Iraq.<br><br>The study of color psychology stepped up after WWII and is part of marketing savvy and thus part of governance, too. Business and government have been sharing their research on influencing the masses for the last 100 years. (That's what scientific fascism is.)<br><br>The study of how our senses interact like a kind of internal biological cross-marketing called <!--EZCODE BOLD START--><strong>'Synesthesia'</strong><!--EZCODE BOLD END--> goes back atleast to the 1970s and you can imagine how exploitable is the attendent concept of <!--EZCODE BOLD START--><strong>'Fuzzy Functions.'</strong><!--EZCODE BOLD END--><br><br>I think this is what is behind making the Hollywood villain blue in the 2002 Frankie Munzie film 'Big Fat Liar' to get kids subconsciously hostile to 'blue Democrats,' fuzzy thinking. (No, not mine, Professor Pan, the kids! Beat ya to it, lol.)<br><br>Consider how synesthesia is used in movies like 'The Exorcist' in 1973 which used unsettling sounds like bees swarming and pigs being slaughtered allied with scary images. Someone wrote me that a CIA advisor was in on the making of that movie and its effect on viewers much like Hadley Cantril's study of the 1938 War of the World panic. I don't have back-up for that but it is interesting that this sensory synthesis was in a 1976 book called 'The Structure of Magic Volume II.' Right time period and the social unrest amongst youth coined 'the sixties' spurred efforts to reign in those energies with entertainment diversions and cults.<br><br>Maybe even Disco was an MK-ULTRA project to bury Woodstock generation cultural cues. I'm only half-joking because FM radio was used to take the peace and justice messages out of the anti-war movement and reduce it to mere love songs and spectacle. Read Alex Constantine's 'The Covert War Against Rock' to learn how the CIA's Operation CHAOS took apart the Woodstock Generation by targeting its icons COINTELPRO-style. Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, Jim Morrison, all dead shortly after Kent State caused campuses to explode with anger. <!--EZCODE BOLD START--><strong>Keeping white middle-class students and black Americans from uniting around music like the blues was probably the motive. </strong><!--EZCODE BOLD END--><br><br>Ah, there's some more meaning around the color 'blue.'<br><br>Now we have very distinct black and white music kept on seperate channels and even exaggerated into The Nashville Network vs Gangsta Rap. This has social implications. Color, music, politics...Synesthesia. Divide and Conquer.<br><br>many links here-<br><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK START--><a href="http://www.doctorhugo.org/synaesthesia/">www.doctorhugo.org/synaesthesia/</a><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK END--><br>(Belgian Synesthesia Association)<br><br>including this one-<br><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK START--><a href="http://www.doctorhugo.org/synaesthesia/fuzzyfunctions.html">www.doctorhugo.org/synaes...tions.html</a><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK END--><br><br><!--EZCODE IMAGE START--><img src="http://www.doctorhugo.org/synaesthesia/fuzzyfunctions.gif" style="border:0;"/><!--EZCODE IMAGE END--><br><br><!--EZCODE QUOTE START--><blockquote><strong><em>Quote:</em></strong><hr>Synesthesia and Fuzzy Functions<br><br>Synaesthesia: synesthesia links have to do with the mutual influence between sensory representations. Certain qualities of feelings may be linked to certain qualities of imagery - for example, the intensity of a feeling may be linked to the brightness of an image; the color of an image (red or blue, for instance) may influence the temperature of a feeling; people may feel the impact of a particular image at different locations in their bodies depending on its quality of movement; and so on. Synesthesia is at the basis of our appreciation of art. They are also the basis of the so-called "fuzzy functions".<br><br>Fuzzy Functions: "Fuzzy Functions" were defined by John Grinder and Richard Bandler in The Structure of Magic Volume II (1976) as a connecting or overlapping of our sensory representational systems. Technically, Grinder and Bandler define "fuzzy functions" as:<br>* Any modeling involving a representational system and either an input channel or an output channel in which the input or output channel involved is a different modality from the representational system with which it is being used. In traditional psychophysics, this term, 'fuzzy function', is most closely translated by the term 'synesthesia'.<br><br>Hearing a loud noise (auditory input channel) and feeling startled or frightened (kinesthetic representational system), for example, is a "fuzzy function" because the sound has overlapped onto physical and emotional sensations. Seeing internal imagery while listening to music, or having emotional responses to seeing various facial expressions would also be a results of "fuzzy functions." Fuzzy functions are typically characterized by terms such as "see-feel" or "hear-feel" circuits. According to Grinder and Bandler, fuzzy functions are the way in which our experience acquires meaning, but can also be the source of confusion and stress. Fuzzy functions create problems when they lead to stuck states and when we have no choice about them. Problematic fuzzy functions can be dealt with by sorting and separating the representational channels that have become fused or confused. This can be accomplished a variety of ways. Accessing Cues and Submodality interventions can be used to help people clarify and influence different aspects of their sensory experience.<br><br>—Source: Robert Dilts, Santa Cruz, CA. Edited by Dr. Hugo Heyrman, Antwerp, BE.<hr></blockquote><!--EZCODE QUOTE END--> <p></p><i>Edited by: <A HREF=http://p216.ezboard.com/brigorousintuition.showUserPublicProfile?gid=hughmanateewins>Hugh Manatee Wins</A> at: 10/5/06 11:51 am<br></i>