atw: Re: Writing IS Programming!!
- From: Andrea Tappe <Andrea.Tappe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: "'austechwriter@xxxxxxxxxxxxx'" <austechwriter@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 12 Mar 2004 10:40:18 +1100
Well, I can only dream about taking control of someone's thoughts..... but
I'm pretty confident that I scare the daylights out of most people :-) Maybe
instead of writing manuals for my clients, I should persuade them to pop
halvsies in setting up a Temple of Eternal Enlightenment, where their users
can (at vast expense) be programmed to use their systems, instead of the
other way around ;-)
-----Original Message-----
From: BIRTLEY-KENT,Christine [mailto:Christine.BIRTLEY-KENT@xxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Thursday, 11 March 2004 4:38 PM
To: austechwriter@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: atw: Re: Writing IS Programming!!
I think you are misdefining the word 'programming'.=20=20
If you talk to someone, they can choose to hear you and absorb what you
are saying, but this is not programming. I contend that this is mostly
what the TW does - talks reasonably and nicely enough for the listener
to choose to listen. We at no stage take control.
But programming a person's thoughts is another thing entirely - it
entails taking control of their own thoughts and over-ruling them. This
can only be done by fully recruiting the emotions. The art of
hypnotherapy relies on the subject being in trusting (ie emotional)
relationship with the hypnotist, and thus accessible to mental
programming. Fundamentalist religions and cults work in exactly the
same way - they capture people emotionally by appealing to their
emotions - making them feel good, feeding their ego, singing and
dancing, sometimes scaring the daylights out of them - they engender a
whole range of potent emotional reactions. Once they have the person
emotionally disarrayed, they can then program them with a new package of
thoughts that slip in unresisted.
Whilst the two do work together, they are certainly not the same thing.
As writers we can choose how much control we take by determining the
degree to which we will stir the emotions - advertising works this way.
Christine
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