Persuasion in the Social Imagination... What does that look like?

Persuasion is NOT Manipulation - Manipulation is coercion through force to get someone to do something that is not in their own interest. Persuasion is the art of getting people to do things that are in their own best interest that also benefit you...

Have you ever been persuaded to do something that you may not have thought of doing or sought to do past/present/future? Many people have and some have without their knowledge as we have pointed out through the use of propaganda, subliminal messaging and through the use of herd mentality. 

Could the current crisis be a persuasive means to coral people together (get them in their homes scared) to get them on board with a greater agenda: top down engineered controlled thought and behavior program, a big brother prison society, a cashless society...  a global world order? It starts to appear as if something much bigger is on the horizon. 

Why would there be such an agenda? Well, believe it or not...not everyone's social imagination is like yours exactly. It may seem that way when you think you have a few things in common or are brought into agreement through social contract that says you can do this and not that. That's why we have government, that's why there are politicians, elections, declarations, constitutions, laws, ordinances etc.  Because, your social imagination is... its likely not mine. 

Take the time to make an in-depth observation... sit in a parking lot at any Walmart or any Supermarket, or uptown deli and you will be amazed. There are plenty of low level social imaginations milling about. Now, I happen to think that following suggested practices to keep this situation under control is wise. 

Yet, daily I see people out and about (shopping) barefoot in their shower shoes a.k.a flip flops or sometimes sneakers, shorts/pants, and ball caps or sunglasses (men/women/children and seniors) but with no mask or gloves. There are slow pokes, dumpy folks, too skinny folks, short and tall and most of all, lacking situational awareness. Or, they just have not been persuaded.

Those self-righteous 'you know whats' argue that they have the right to do whatever they want. But, these days, their right to disregard suggested health safety practices might be seen as involuntary manslaughter. But, there they are young and old, overweight, unkempt, poorly dressed and ignorant of other's rights... to life. This kind of behavior sounds like it needs to be corralled, doesn't it? At least, in the eyes of the social engineers.

And, so there are those that can engineer persuasive measures that will slowly get people on board with their social imagination....not yours. It just takes a little friendly persuasion. That is getting people to do things that are in their own best interest that also benefit you...

So, what's in their own best interest that also benefits you (which is not you but them - those that are doing the persuading). Well, they get people of the lower level social imagination to be subject to change that benefits them in ways that best benefit those engineering the changes. 

Are you being persuaded yet? If not now, then perhaps later, when you think you have a choice but really don't. Those at the top, the social engineers, want you to think they know what is best for you... that's how persuasion benefits them and you...COVID. And, somehow, that abbreviation sounds more like a manipulation of the social imagination... or am I just 'socially' imagining it. 

The problem we are facing is an unseen enemy. It doesn't mean it isn't real or just imagined. Its been engineered to do a job/task and its doing it. How? That's what we have been talking about in the last blogs posted here on the Social Imagination.







*Submission to Authorities
Everyone must submit himself to the governing authorities, for there is no authority except that which is from God. The authorities that exist have been appointed by God. Consequently, the one who resists authority is opposing what God has set in place, and those who do so will bring judgment on themselves.…Romans 13: 1-2.

But...Do not put your trust in princes, in mortal man, who cannot save. When his spirit departs, he returns to the ground; on that very day his plans perish...Psalm 146:3-4.