This blog is for me... I don't tweet. I don't care if you follow me, and I'm offended that you're offended I don't follow you, you self righteous attention whore. This is above all else a public diary. Read it if you want perspective, comment if it's constructive, but first and foremost, this is for me. Later on, when I realize I'm a failure, I'll use these blogs to write an instruction booklet, or something...
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Day 8868
Today, I held a bird's eye view of my life and times and realized that I had no wings. So I landed in my eye.
I gave a perspective of a fawn to a goat and she thought it was "baaaaad."
Two ferrys cross in a pond, and I don't even have a life preserver.
If I were sold as a slave to an Irishman, would he allow me to listen to christian rock?
Do the Jonas Brothers pee together?
On a different note, I chose a research topic for my psychology class. This is my proposal:
Religion. The moral bonding agent of society since time began. How has religion spread so fast? How have major religions survived, grown and thrived over millennia? And how will they continue to survive in the age of social media and fickle change? Are the tactics of recruitment similar to tactics corporations and marketing companies employ on a regular basis?
The purpose of this paper is to analyze the use of Cialdini’s principles of persuasion in modern religion. Through critical analysis of the six principles, the veil of common religion will give way to a market, an enterprise, and at its core... A business.
I think your proposal is interesting, in that I have a tendency to think of the modern corporation as being structured and marketed as a religion. It's an interesting statement on different perspectives, that we both came up with the same idea from different angles.
ReplyDeleteReligion at its best is a loving charity, and at its worst a genocidal army. It is hard to generalize about religion as a whole when there are so many different ones, so many factions within a given one, and so many different viewpoints within a given faction. I think the art of seduction is used by both marketing companies and religion, but not really to the same end. A highly debatable and controversial subject! I have a lot to say on the matter and would like to discuss with you in person later.
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