[gui-talk] whoops. Thought Provokers and political agenda

[Joel Deutsch]

Albert,

I guess my own most ready reference would be to Soviet propaganda. That 
isn't a political statement, one way or the other. I'm not expressing 
anything controversial. But if one knows how extraordinarily unsubtle Soviet 
propaganda in print, photography and so forth was compared even to the 
crudest-seeming American cold War political propaganda or, in another vein, 
so-called Madison Avenue advertising, well, the Soviet stuff wins hands 
down. Some Soviet people believed a lot of it because they had no other 
information with which to compare what they were told, and many others (the 
"intelligentsia, mostly, meaning educated and thoughtful people) had to 
settle on "reading between the lines" in order to have a chance of guessing 
what was really going on.

Anyway, these thought provokers, even though I don't have the full immersion 
in blind issues that others do, I still am aware enough of various personal 
challenges and blind controversies to know where each story is going almost 
immediately, as if it's meant for junior high school kids,so I just wind up 
sounding pretty ungenerous and cranky about the stuff, not to mention I 
really get nuts about some actual writing issues, like some images that make 
no sense at all, and I'm not even gonna go there. it's my problem, I think. 
But the overall effect is usually to bum me out so badly that I can't read 
one all the way through anymore.

Oh, well. I know that the guy is really trying to do something constructive 
and helpful, and I'll bet the stuff has that effect more than I'd imagine. 
So never mind my opinions, finally. Doesn't matter. I guess. :-)

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "albert griffith" <albertgriffith at sbcglobal.net>
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Sent: Tuesday, December 16, 2008 6:41 PM
Subject: Re: [gui-talk] whoops. Thought Provokers and political agenda


The point is so thinly disguised these pieces remind me of old propaganda
from the fifties.

-----Original Message-----
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Behalf Of Joel Deutsch
Sent: Tuesday, December 16, 2008 3:51 PM
To: GUI-Talk
Subject: [gui-talk] whoops. Thought Provokers and political agenda

I just remembered how this is a big part of them, just as Albert says. I
just kind of forgot. All about what must be problems or controversies about
whether it's better for a blind person to use this method or that one, take
advantage of this adaptive tool or refuse it for some psychological reason,
whether there's discrimination in this or that situation, and a bunch of
other things. The reason I sort of forgot that element is because I almost
always figure out what the hidden intention of the piece is within a
sentence or two, and then the rest strikes me so badly that I forget the
whole thing later. But I just remembered all that. Sorry, Albert. Of course
you're right about that.


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