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- From: ry@cbnewsl.cb.att.com (ryerson.schwark)
- Subject: Re: Liberty (was something relevant about CO-2 long ago...)
- Organization: UNIX System Laboratories, Summit, NJ
- Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 22:34:26 GMT
- Message-ID: <1992Dec21.223426.391@cbnewsl.cb.att.com>
- References: <BzM8Fq.97F@austin.ibm.com> <1992Dec21.164230.17150@cbnewsl.cb.att.com> <BzMLsL.2tMy@austin.ibm.com>
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- In article <BzMLsL.2tMy@austin.ibm.com> alan@auntbea.austin.ibm.com (Alan R. Weiss) writes:
- >
- >Fundamentally, its about getting people to buy-in. Paying
- >attention is only one part of it - once you GET their attention,
- >you need to close the sell. If this sounds a little too business-like
- >for a social engineering discussion, I'm sorry. I see little
- >difference between selling policy and belief systems and selling
- >pancakes.
-
- Then consider terror selling, if you don't do this/buy this, bad
- stuff will happen. If you don't do this/buy this, nobody will talk
- to you.
-
- Perhaps you don't have a product that this will work for, but
- its perfectly valid and effective marketing.
-
-
- The assumption that you can only change behavior by selling them
- sweetly doesn't hold up. See actup and its success with drug
- companies.
- >That's funny. How can the beer people sell so much partially
- >fermented grain beverages that tastes like sour hops? They
- >associate it with CUTE BABES and HUNKY DUDES having FAR more
- >fun than YOU'VE ever had in your life. :-) :-)
- >If that's not sugar-coating .....
-
- Have you ever seen them market lifecall? If you buy this you will
- not have a heartattack at home and die alone wishing you could
- reach the phone.
-
- >Correct, not NECESSARILY true, just a much higher probability.
- >And hey, what's WRONG with making an essentially righteous
- >set of principles more attractive, so long as the principles themselves
- >remain intact? We're NOT talking about changing them - only
- >subtly influencing people's PERCEPTION of them.
-
- No, what you're doing is dictating the behavior of feminists.
-
- >
- >Never said that. I suggested that its ONE way of selling the concepts.
- >Not the only way. ACT UP! has another way of selling their
- >concepts, and it *may* be effective - its too early to tell. But
- >note that, until now, ACT UP! has NOT been effective in garnering
- >much research money for AIDS. Are there parallels? Maybe.
-
- You don't follow actup closely. They've been quite effective in
- changing a number of government policies at the FDA and forcing
- companies to lower drug prices and a number of other victories.
- I'm sure somebody here besides me can quote the list.
-
- you may have suggested it was one way, but it sure came across
- sounding like THE way.
- >
- >
- >"What is the quickest and most effective way to change the thought
- >patterns of this society?"
-
- By killing everyone. In the meantime, I try just loudly being.
-
- Ry Schwark
-