A while back, the great Karl Denninger wrote on his blog about the damage done from the media always trying to “blur out” and sanitize footage of violent crimes:
…by hiding the gory details from the common person (who is not a criminal) we encourage the view that it is not really as bad as it actually is; that is, we deliberately prevent criminal acts from “shocking the conscience” of civilized people as a whole.
That in turn drives people’s demand to be “nice” or have “compassion” when someone does an evil thing!
Vision of violence saves lives.
In fact, one of the top concealed carry instructors in the country, who I write about in my Infotainment Jackpot book insists his students subscribe to ALARMA TV. The show features live footage from security cameras, etc of ordinary people being violently attacked in every day situations.
Like at ATMs, on the street, etc.
Very sobering stuff if you walk through life oblivious to what’s out there.
And he knows it will do more to “sell” and “persuade” his students to train & carry than any amount of cold statistics or nagging and badgering them with reason & logic. One or two episodes and you stop giving a shyte about being called names because you cross the street when someone is coming towards you.
Instead, you start noticing how people move & behave before a crime.
And you start to realize it only takes one “be nice” moment to lose everything.
Yes, including your life.
Vision is supreme at creating changes in thinking and behavior.
I suspect if that Ukrainian girl (the only Ukrainian on the planet the mass media didn’t seem to want to save from evil suddenly) who got violently stabbed on the train had watched enough ALARMA TV, she’d have been a much harder target, been much more aware, and been much better positioned to defend herself – including carrying a weapon of her own, and not having her back to anyone.
i.e., be the proverbial porcupine in the forest.
Societies used to use Vision as a matter of self-preservation:
Judges hanging criminals right on the court house lawn for all to see. Preachers pointing to the graveyard reminding everyone they’re going there, too. Public flogging. Public stoning of murderers. Public humiliation via Colonial stocks in the town square etc.
Nowadays?
We’re ruled by foreign elites, sob sisters, & political eunuchs preaching “nice.”
Using Vision will get you called an assortment of “ists” and “phobics” by these idiots.
And that’s because using Vision WORKS.
If it didn’t work they wouldn’t resort to the label game in the first place.
But whatever the case:
Learning how to use Vision in your persuasive communication (business or otherwise) can help keep you alive. It can keep your kids from being molested. It can keep your teens from being enslaved to drugs. And, yes, it can even keep your loved ones from being murdered on public transit.
Now just imagine what it can do for your advertising..
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