Hugh wrote:brainpanhandler wrote:Hugh wrote:A pause button, a pen, a notepad. Very deliberate examination yields interesting details.
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Does it ever occur to you that perhaps "very deliberate examination" might yield a myopic view of things?
"Examination = myopic" ? No. Just the opposite.
Yes, of course. What was I thinking? I meant just the opposite of what I said. I was exactly wrong to even wonder about such a thing, 180 degrees backward. C'mon Hugh, surely you know by now that it is precisely this sort of dickheaded answer that pisses people off. Do yourself a favor and start cultivating the ability to start by giving people the benefit of the doubt and resisting your passive/aggresive impulse to mock people and your chances of finding a more receptive audience will increase dramatically. But maybe that's not what you want?
From MW:
Main Entry:
my•o•pia
Pronunciation:
\mī-ˈō-pē-ə\
Function:
noun
Etymology:
New Latin, from Greek myōpia, from myōp-, myōps
Date:
circa 1752
1 : a condition in which the visual images come to a focus in front of the retina of the eye resulting especially in defective vision of distant objects 2 : a lack of foresight or discernment : a narrow view of something Would you agree that the way you view media is distinct from the way most people view the same media? Is it possible that any of that distinction results from something other than the fact that the general populace is brainwashed? My point was that there has to be some explanation for why you can be so right on and then so ridiculously off in your analyses of media. Giving you the benefit of the doubt, I assume that 16 years of immersing yourself in your studies of the media/psy-ops/propaganda/KWH has so narrowed your focus that you sometimes lose sight of other ways of interpreting things. See how that works? It's a metaphor. An alternative theory is that you actually wish to discredit the theory of psy-ops/KWH in mass media by offering alternately sound and unsound analyses.
I can guarantee you that in watching
Being There for what must be the 4th or 5th time I will have the remote handy, as well as a pad and a pen.
Do you even know how to interpret your experience in any other way?
Other than with critical thinking and context? No.
Still bein' a dickhead. You know damn well what I mean. I guess there really is no other way to communicate with you than to write every last thought as strictly, carefully, narowly and as misinterpretably as possible, which is a pain in the ass. A lens necessarily distorts. That's another metaphor. I try to approach media with an unbiased eye to begin with. I try. That's my first operating premise. I don't want to be lead around by my prover trying prove what the thinker already thinks.
I'm guessing you didn't read the links I put up about 'Being There.' Oh well. (Try'em.)
Yes I did. I would not have opened my big mouth if I had not. I did not find what you said was there. I looked, carefully. I put on my Hugh Mantee glasses and got out my decoder ring but alas I am not the detective you are. Unfortunately experience has taught me that you are as liable to produce nonsense as anything else and so one possible explanation is that whatever you think is there is not discernible to someone not given to stretching and distorting the evidence to fit the theory. That's the explanation I am favoring at the moment.
One guilty pleasure is Bobcat Goldthwaite's 'Shakes the Clown,' called by the Boston Globe "the Citizen Kane of alcoholic clown movies."
I've not seen it. His voice irritates the shit out of me. Ok, I'll bite, why is it a guilty pleasure Hugh? Oddly enough, I just posted a link to Killer Clowns from Space (full movie) on the Loving the Alien thread in the lounge.
I look forward to what this thread might produce. I even look forward to your take on things, because truly you have altered my view and added to my knowledge. Given your history with the people who have thus far expressed an interest in the OP however, it is not hard to imagine a scenario where most conversations orbit around the black hole of psy-ops/KWH theories and devolve into shouting matches over that.
Is it possible that a film may have been altered or engineered to serve a psy-ops purpose and yet still have some merit on other levels as a work of art?
"Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity." - Martin Luther King Jr.
Thanks for the image.
