The optics of politics

[Locutus]

Seeing campaigns through a multicultural kaleidoscope


(CNN) – The images – on TV, YouTube, our social networks – have become so familiar that we take them for granted.

We're treated to scenes of Barack Obama with a group of middle Americans at a cozy restaurant table, then with an African-American

woman in an office. Or we see clips from a rally, the president surrounded by faces of all ages and hues.


more mental masturbation and massaging by backroom image-spinsters, networks and lyin' bastards:


The optics of politics: Seeing campaigns through a multicultural kaleidoscope – In America - CNN.com Blogs

 

[petros]

Optics...interesting choice of words.

 

[SLM]

Isn't politics really all optics?

 

[petros]

Isn't politics really all optics?

Spot on!

 

[taxslave]

Isn't politics really all optics?

Optics and a firm conviction that a lie is as good as the truth if you can get someone to believe it.

 

[SLM]

Spot on!

It's all about the spin right? You got the right spin you've got the voters in your pocket.

Me, I don't trust any of them, lol. I can't believe that there are actually people who believe in the people they are voting for. Seems a very alien concept to me.

 

[petros]

Optics and a firm conviction that a lie is as good as the truth if you can get someone to believe it.

There is no hope for the mind's eye when it comes to trickery of available and artificail light and shadow if it blinds you.



ZZ Top - Cheap Sunglasses - YouTube

 

[SLM]

Optics and a firm conviction that a lie is as good as the truth if you can get someone to believe it.

If enough people believe in a lie it "becomes" the truth doesn't it?

 

[captain morgan]

If enough people believe in a lie it "becomes" the truth doesn't it?

Nope

 

[SLM]

Nope

Sure it can. It starts with people justifying, then they move on to complete acceptance, finally they end up in a place where they don't even question the validity anymore. Hence, it has become the truth.

Not saying it's right, but it is what happens. We can convince ourselves of almost anything to be able to sleep at night.

 

[captain morgan]

I'm just funnin' ya... But in the end, the 'acceptance' of the 'lie' does not transform the misinformation into truth.

True story!

 

[SLM]

I'm just funnin' ya... But in the end, the 'acceptance' of the 'lie' does not transform the misinformation into truth.

But the acceptance of it makes it a reality, therefore the truth. Not the truth truth, not the factual truth, but the everyday truth. It ceases to be a lie and becomes the truth.

I think. Crap, politics is hard.

True story!

Lies!!! lol.

 

[darkbeaver]

But the acceptance of it makes it a reality, therefore the truth. Not the truth truth, not the factual truth, but the everyday truth. It ceases to be a lie and becomes the truth.

I think. Crap, politics is hard.



Lies!!! lol.

That first sentence is purely political.