| Basics of Human Manipulation Humans love stories. They especially love stories about humans. If you wanted to convince humans that the sun was mainly responsible for our climate, it would involve technical discussions and charts, graphs and mathematical formulae. You may succeed, but they are not likely to connect emotionally to what you are saying. Politicians know this and they look for a story where fear can be aroused and the narrative involves humans as the cause. Human-Caused Global Warming would be a much better bet and you could get famous people panicking and worrying about how humans are not doing enough to prevent an oncoming disaster. Humans which are into the business of fiction and entertainment are your best bet. Famous actors say the most illogical things but appeal to the most people at the same time. After all, that actor played the part of a genius in a movie so I should trust what she says. You could never get a fiction loving human to panic over a real issue to the same degree as you can with a fiction story with all of the ingredients which the human heart desires. Children like animal stories. The animals can talk if you wish. Children go through a stage where they more closely identify with animals. Ontogeny recapulates phylogeny, and all that. Read the following book for clarification: The Literary Animal by Fredrick Crews Darwinian literary study is based on a few simple premises: evolution has produced a universal landscape of the human mind that can be scientifically mapped; these universal tendencies are reflected in the composition, reception, and interpretation of literary works; and an understanding of the evolutionary foundations of human behavior, psychology, and culture will enable literary scholars to gain powerful new perspectives on the elements, form, and nature of storytelling. - - - - Next |
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