I would like to direct this concept to followers and potential followers of Obama who have been caught up in the mass euphoria and explain why they have been mesmorized so easily.
Huxley explains that "the masses are utterly contemptible. They are incapable of abstract thinking and uninterested in any fact outside the circle of their immediate experience. Their behavior is determined not by knowledge and reason, but by feelings and unconscious drives."
He goes on to explain the propaganda strategies by Hitler who made his strongest appeal to those members of the lower middle class who had been ruined by the inflation of 1923 and then ruined all over again by the depression of 1929 and the following years. Huxley explains, "Hitler spoke of "The masses" which were considered the bewildered, frustrated, and chronically anxious group of millions. To make them more masslike, more homogenously subhuman, he assembled them, by the thousands and the tens of thousands, in vast halls and arenas, where individuals could lose their personal identity, even their elementary humanity, and be merged with the crowd. A man or woman makes direct contact with society in two ways; as a member of some familial, professional or religous group, or a as a member of a crowd. Groups are capable of being as moral and intelligent as the individuals who form them; a crowd is chaotic, has no purpose of its own and capable of anything except intelligent action and realistic thinking."
This concept set forward by Huxley helps explain why prominent and intelligent people can mix into a crowd and lose all forms of reasoning power. This is the reason why the concept of universal healthcare seems like a grand idea even if the real impact of such a plan would devastate America. It seems people rather give precedence to emotions and not facts. Ever heard of "buyer's remorse"? They say people buy on emotion and reason with logic. After your emotions settle down after buying that decked out new car with an added warranty that you didn't need, you start to realize the true impact of your decision with logic and reason. You realize your emotions have deceived you and got you into a binding contract that is not in your favor. Emotions can be deceiving because when you are caught in the immediate experience, you are not always capable of analyzing the true long term impact of the information being transmitted to you, because it is your very emotional framework that the orator is going after and tailoring to. Any public speaking 101 class will teach you that! This same concept goes for the people at an Obama rally.
This mass "Obama" euphoria is happening for a very strategic reason and I believe it is dangerous and deceptively calculated. Barack Obama is preying on the same feelings, hopes, and aspirations of people that Hitler appealed to in Nazi Germany from 1923-1929. It is no different.
Beware of herd poisoning. Don't let yourself get "steered" in the wrong direction.
Think!!!
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