Counter-reasonous

Al Gore’s book, “Assault on Reason,” definitely lives up to it’s title. Apparently the scribbles and half-thoughts of the inventor of the internet are a continuous assault on reason from beginning to end.

Besides our impending ecological doom Gore worries that non-liberals will maliciously attempt to persuade Americans and influence elections by using the airwaves! Imagine that.

Lamenting a surfeit of “electronic images that can elicit emotional responses,” Gore is deeply concerned “about the potential for exploitation of the television medium by those who seek to use it to manipulate public opinion in ways that bypass reason and logic.” With the national media controlled by a handful of corporations, he fears that “money and the clever use of electronic mass media could be used to manipulate the outcome of elections.” The rise of cable news and talk radio has seen “media Machiavellis” flood the airwaves with “propagandistic electronic messaging”—and the hypnotized chickens are none the wiser.  ~reason.com

Of course all the arguments of non-liberals are illogical, and if I may coin a new term, ‘counter-reasonous.’ Any belief outside of the canon of transnational progressivism is invalid, an, “Assault on Reason,” if you will.

Gore argues that the average American is in an advanced state of political torpor, induced by a profit-mad mass media. By way of illustration, he offers this folksy—if bizarre—anecdote: “When I was a boy growing up on our family farm in the summers,” he writes, off-handedly acknowledging that he wasn’t, in fact, a year-round farm boy, “I learned how to hypnotize chickens.” The former Vice President would render the birds “entranced and completely immobile” by forcing his quarry to follow the path of his finger. “It turns out that the immobility response in animals is an area that has received some scholarly attention, and here is one thing that scientists have found: the immobility response is strongly influenced by fear.” The American news consumer, therefore, is something akin to a frightened chicken. ~reason.com

American Democracy is in danger! To combat this threat it may be necessary to limit these, “profit-mad mass media Machiavellis,” before they do any more damage to our country.

Gore is on firmer ground when bemoaning “the culture of fear” that has flourished since the World Trade Center attacks, though his argument is seriously undermined when, in the next breath, he asserts that “American democracy is now in danger” because of a corrupted “marketplace of ideas.”  ~reason.com

Shoved into the internet 'tubes' on June 26, 2007, by Hegemonic Pundit, under the following categories: anti-capitalism, anti-intellectuals, climate change, climate change religion, democrats, eco-terrorism, enviro-death-cult, global warming, gross hypocrisy, the left

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