From: "PSOTKA, JOSEPH" Subject: RE: SOC: ""Make everyone on earth SEE things your way."" Really? Date: 11 Sep 95 09:17:00 EDT From "PSOTKA, JOSEPH" Perusasion and conformity to authority are not necesssarily interlinked in as vile a way as Bob Jacobson proposes. I didn't see the add, but I know there is always a flip side to persuasion; and that is the enormous difficulty of getting new ideas out in a way that they are uynderstood. Often new ideas confront conformity and are submerged and lost. Making others see things your way offers the potential benefit of overthrowing stale old ideas and actually creating better visions of the world. This is a possibility and a very worthwhile one, even if it turns out to be a very infrequent phenonmenon. So which way will the world turn with this technology; will new ideas be drowned out be corporate visions of conformity, or will plluralism and diversity of thinking triumph? and which vision of making people SEE things your way will eventuate? Personally, I see an increase of pluralism as an inevitable extension of human intellect, and SGI and visual thinking will help people more clearly communicate and share ideas; and gradually acquire a truer vision of the world.