Post by shawnhartnell on Mar 29, 2015 6:51:25 GMT -6
Light Rock & Stealth Bullshit
What I'm about to say might seem a bit bizarre, yet, if you keep an open mind you'll be able to recognize a certain type of stealth bullshit for what it is -- bullshit.
My example may be odd, but I think it's a good example to clearly to show the turd gets shaped. Remember this principle ('tis important): "The shape of the turd determines it's capability for being invisible."
This is highly related to Banachek's principle: "You can't not communicate."
You can't not communicate because of the principle stated in a more general sense: "Every tool leaves it's mark." In other words, everything is the end result of the process or action that created or affected it.
(Modern) guns have ridges on the inside of their barrels in a spiral. The rifling turns the bullet as it moves down the barrel, making the bullet spin and 'fly' much more straight than if it wasn't.
Taking the gun as the tool and the bullet as the product, two marks of the gun are immediately made on the bullet. The first is the straighter path of the fired bullet. Since this is normal for bullets these days it would be easy to take it for granted and not notice it. (BTW, this is how being a font of useless knowledge -- like the history of gun innovation -- is actually useful.) The second are the unique rifling marks you're probably already familiar with from detective shows like CSI.
Getting back to the nearly invisible turd science, stealth bullshit gets it's shape from the "gun" it's fired from as well. People who are unknowingly full of it aren't able to see it as such because as the tool which shot the shit, the marks are their own. Like a wild animal, as long as it smells like them, it's OK.
The marks of the tool are made by the intentions of the crapper sculpted the edits they've made from their original intention to make it appear the way that they want it to appear to their listener.
And they're usually wrong.
If you simply don't take any communication at face value you'll be able to see that what they're handing you is something truly absurd -- something like a chicken that's been dressed up like a pig. If it was a roll of clay, you would see how it's been bent, stretched, padded, and how the disjointed edges have been badly fit together where whatever it was between them had been removed.
Another simple principle: "the quickest way between two points is a straight line." If they're not making that trip and zig-zagging instead, it's a symptom of thinking or editing.
This brings us to the stealth bullshit that is light rock. There is no such thing as light rock beyond the term used by radio stations to lure in a specific audience. It's a marketing term, not a music genre.
The term light rock tells the audience of a radio station two things they want to hear: the radio doesn't play heavy metal, yet isn't something as lame as Kenny G -- or Enya. It's like saying that the music played by the radio station rocks, but not much, it just kinda jiggles a little.
The key here is that light rock is a term that is shaped solely by what it isn't. Why? Because the people who listen to such stations are some really lame people, who are in denial of their general lameness.
The term 'light rock' makes no sense as a musical genre. Even Little Richard didn't play 'light rock' back in the 50's. On the other hand, it does make sense as stealth bullshit invented by marketers and used by radio stations who have an audience who want to buy their product -- but only if the marketers assist in their own self-deception.
What I'm about to say might seem a bit bizarre, yet, if you keep an open mind you'll be able to recognize a certain type of stealth bullshit for what it is -- bullshit.
My example may be odd, but I think it's a good example to clearly to show the turd gets shaped. Remember this principle ('tis important): "The shape of the turd determines it's capability for being invisible."
This is highly related to Banachek's principle: "You can't not communicate."
You can't not communicate because of the principle stated in a more general sense: "Every tool leaves it's mark." In other words, everything is the end result of the process or action that created or affected it.
(Modern) guns have ridges on the inside of their barrels in a spiral. The rifling turns the bullet as it moves down the barrel, making the bullet spin and 'fly' much more straight than if it wasn't.
Taking the gun as the tool and the bullet as the product, two marks of the gun are immediately made on the bullet. The first is the straighter path of the fired bullet. Since this is normal for bullets these days it would be easy to take it for granted and not notice it. (BTW, this is how being a font of useless knowledge -- like the history of gun innovation -- is actually useful.) The second are the unique rifling marks you're probably already familiar with from detective shows like CSI.
Getting back to the nearly invisible turd science, stealth bullshit gets it's shape from the "gun" it's fired from as well. People who are unknowingly full of it aren't able to see it as such because as the tool which shot the shit, the marks are their own. Like a wild animal, as long as it smells like them, it's OK.
The marks of the tool are made by the intentions of the crapper sculpted the edits they've made from their original intention to make it appear the way that they want it to appear to their listener.
And they're usually wrong.
If you simply don't take any communication at face value you'll be able to see that what they're handing you is something truly absurd -- something like a chicken that's been dressed up like a pig. If it was a roll of clay, you would see how it's been bent, stretched, padded, and how the disjointed edges have been badly fit together where whatever it was between them had been removed.
Another simple principle: "the quickest way between two points is a straight line." If they're not making that trip and zig-zagging instead, it's a symptom of thinking or editing.
This brings us to the stealth bullshit that is light rock. There is no such thing as light rock beyond the term used by radio stations to lure in a specific audience. It's a marketing term, not a music genre.
The term light rock tells the audience of a radio station two things they want to hear: the radio doesn't play heavy metal, yet isn't something as lame as Kenny G -- or Enya. It's like saying that the music played by the radio station rocks, but not much, it just kinda jiggles a little.
The key here is that light rock is a term that is shaped solely by what it isn't. Why? Because the people who listen to such stations are some really lame people, who are in denial of their general lameness.
The term 'light rock' makes no sense as a musical genre. Even Little Richard didn't play 'light rock' back in the 50's. On the other hand, it does make sense as stealth bullshit invented by marketers and used by radio stations who have an audience who want to buy their product -- but only if the marketers assist in their own self-deception.