Sunday, October 12, 2008
Catching & Cooking Squirrel
cnbcsucks: "I don't think any ideas have been discarded yet. I don't think any lessons have been learned yet."
You are probably correct, sir. A relatively small number of undecided voters will likely shift to a candidate and decide this election--giving us a slightly different government, which may or may not make a small or large difference in our future prospects. But NOTHING will likely be learned by the large number of people on the left or right of that relatively small center. It will take a natural catastrophe, an unwinnable war, or economic collapse to change just the OPINIONS of many people. Or maybe the freakish condition of some sort of tri-fecta of all those things, simultaneously, to change minds. And minds won't change unless one or all those events has a direct impact on a person.
On the other hand, a shrinking economy, with shrinking advertising budgets, will eventually impact the here's-the-latest-on-Paris-Hilton crowd with new programming about how to catch and cook squirrels from your local park. Eventually even Rush Limbaugh's $400,000,000, 8 year contract might have to be renegotiated.
Putting the Dog Back in Dogma - Sunday, October 12, 2008 | 12:00 PM
You are probably correct, sir. A relatively small number of undecided voters will likely shift to a candidate and decide this election--giving us a slightly different government, which may or may not make a small or large difference in our future prospects. But NOTHING will likely be learned by the large number of people on the left or right of that relatively small center. It will take a natural catastrophe, an unwinnable war, or economic collapse to change just the OPINIONS of many people. Or maybe the freakish condition of some sort of tri-fecta of all those things, simultaneously, to change minds. And minds won't change unless one or all those events has a direct impact on a person.
On the other hand, a shrinking economy, with shrinking advertising budgets, will eventually impact the here's-the-latest-on-Paris-Hilton crowd with new programming about how to catch and cook squirrels from your local park. Eventually even Rush Limbaugh's $400,000,000, 8 year contract might have to be renegotiated.
Putting the Dog Back in Dogma - Sunday, October 12, 2008 | 12:00 PM
# posted by ADL : 11:32 AM
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