On 2013-12-17 11:38, rysiek wrote:
I think that making working for NSA "srsly uncool, dude" is a very effective tactic, for example. Especially in the light of the "thanksgiving talking points".
Will never work. You overrate social pressure. Social pressure does not work on most males, and does not work on females under the influence of a bad boy alpha male. Would nazism be cool http://www.nydailynews.comentertainment/gossip/tila-tequila-wears-nazi-unifo... if the winners had not made it the incarnation of evil? The commies killed way more people than the nazis, but no one ever dresses up as commissar and kulak to perform sexual acts. If the Nazis had won instead of the commies, and the Wikipedia articles on communism read the way the articles on Nazism read in our reality, if Senator McCarthy got in trouble for complaining about Nazis in the state department, if employees routinely get fired for using words suggestive of thoughts suggestive of class conflict, and every television villain is of an evil race, rather than a white male ceo, then commissars would be sexy. But, in our reality, despite not stop television demonization, or rather because of it, white male CEOs and nazi stormtroopers are sexy. You think social pressure works, because people stop using certain words for homosexual, and call firemen firefighters, but that is not social pressure, that is because employers fire people who use those words, and if they don't fire them, the government runs the employer out of business - not soft power, but hard power thinly dressed as soft power.