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Ivan C.

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Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg Claims Privacy Is Dead (Switched)

Jan 17th 2010 3:02PM This part of comment got cut off:

We are only begrudgingly accepting it because its a "prisoners dilemma" problem where collective actions cause the result that individually we would not like, but we feel we miss out if we don't participate ourselves and everybody else does. Here was the article entitled, "Boycott Facebook -- It's Creepy." It says below it takes links, but didnt put the link in either. link: http://donkasauruspost.com/2010/01/17/boycott-facebook-its-creepy/

Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg Claims Privacy Is Dead (Switched)

Jan 17th 2010 2:49PM Terrence, this was a great point you made:

Of course, like it or not, the man is right. The age of privacy seems to be on the way out the cyber-door. This is not because of evolving social norms, though. It's due to standards that have been foisted on a begrudgingly accepting public.

Target: Michelle Obama (Politics Daily)

May 16th 2008 2:34PM "You bash and bash and bash again. But here's the funny thing: that's precisely why the Michelle Obama ad (like the Reverend Wright ads used in Mississippi) will ultimately fail. This ham-fisted attack is too transparent, too repetitive."

This is one of the more mistaken and politically harmful beliefs that I have read. It evinces a naivete and misplaced hopefulness about what should work and why in sound bite political discourse, with what does and why. It falsely substitutes for a clear need to turn such "emotionally pornographic" and manipulative tactics against those who use them, and represents a continued pattern on the part of democrats that has played a role in why they have so often been successfully mischaracterized in previous key elections and lost when they should have easily won.

A related problem, is that sometimes Democrats opponents do everything they can to make sure America is saturated with the "fact" or "suggestion" that they want, so that it becomes common knowledgel (the bullcrap that Kerry was a flip flopper is a great example, so prevalent that even democrats argue that he was. Even worse, they foolishly think this had little to do with the election, just like if somehow Obama loses, they will decide that the saturation into the American psyche of Micelle O's statement had nothing to do with it.) Whether this Tenn' ad is the best way to do this in this instance or not, it does help accomplish this key goal.

On the other hand, democrats have many critical facts that they need for every American to know, and the point gets recited in some arcane publication or press conference or offhandedly pointed out once or twice or "argued" about, as if, from this, every American then somehow knows and believes it. And when they DO get repetitive, they have tended do so so with trite phrases or ideas, not the type of common underpinnings that needs to be deeply saturated in the minds of every American. Think "lockbox."