From: Michael Wiik (mwiik@messagenet.com)
Date: Mon Sep 17 2001 - 08:18:09 MDT
"Harvey Newstrom" <mail@HarveyNewstrom.com> wrote:
> These ideas about "embarrassing" the enemy are stupid and naive. No
> terrorist suicide bomber will simply give up when confronted with an
> embarrassing photograph of their leader. It is a creative and fun idea for
> a civilian population to dream about, but it has little place in modern
> warfare. The real experts are utilizing much more sophisticated techniques
> than these.
Such as? It doesn't involve the broadcast of slaughetered rabbit squeals
does it? I understand that inducing cognitive dissonance via dislocation
(for example, imagine you're reading my post to the extropians list
right now) is effective for selling cars or interrogating suspects.
Anything you can talk about?
-Mike
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