How are you immersed in a sea of persuasion? Give some examples of persuasive messages you've received in interpersonal, public speaking, and mass media contexts. What can you do to become a more critical consumer or persuasive messages?
Every day we encounter with people, mass media, news, movies who are trying to persuade us and change our point of view. In the church we can listen to the preaches about God and relationship with Him according with the Bible and we have to check the information based on the Holy Bible, not on the experience of someone. We have to be very careful because it touches our soul and spiritual life. Same thing with mass media we are surrounded by the different commercial and news who tries to influence on our mind or scary us and we want to buy something what will relieve the pain or satisfy our needs. We have to know what we really need and what is only the way of their approach of our consciousness We like when we listen to people who is talking about liberty, safety for our children and offer different programs and we are ready to listen to this people and react as they want us to do it. I believe to become a critical consumer or persuasive messages we have to be aware about everything, to find our point of view and stand up for our opinion. Nobody has to impose me their reasoning and type of thinking. If this touch of my family I want to know what is good and bad for my family because I' m the cleaner of information and I have to separate clean from unclean because I'm responsible for this. And this world will definitely do everything to impose their system of values, they want me to enslave in their model of behavior and thinking.
I think it's interesting that each person can easily see that persuasion is in almost anything around our proximity. Capitalism does believe in a consumer model. The concept is simple, "get people to like what we have to sell". Nevertheless, even for the most intelligent being, its easy to become influenced. At times its hard for me to tell the bullshit from the truth because some people are just good at making things look or seem better than they are. Those are the types of people we should be taking notes from. If we can use their system against them, we'll have a better chance at relieving ourselves from unhealthy cycles which perpetuate from institutions.
ReplyDeleteHi Sierra Credo-
ReplyDeleteThe bombardment of persuasion is daily and constant. Like you said, people, mass media, news, movies, church, it's everywhere. Plus, not to mention, this recent political season. The political season every two years is intense. Every time you look around you are exposed to someone trying to get you to think or vote a certain way. I said in my post that "if you are awake, then you are probably being exposed to some kind of form of persuasion". Also, I added that billboards, bumper stickers and businesses displaying signs expose us all to the concept of persuasion. But, businesses run on money, you get money buy selling you stuff and you sell your stuff by telling people about how good it is. That's the world of capitalism.
F.D.