Ironically, the most effective method I've found isn't protesting or direct action; it's storytelling.
no, this isn't irony. This has been this way since time immemorial. You can lecture someone about the goodness of an idea, but if it's not one they've already bought into, it will bounce off their shields... but science has shown that a story or a song will slide behind those shields and hit your intended target, the same as if you'd hit Smaug's missing scale.
This is why the role of Bard has existed for as long as we remember... and why they're so important.
Hell. How did Joshua ben Joseph get his most important points across?
STORYTELLING.
Hillel? STORIES.
Siddhartha? STOOOOORY.
So.... it does work out okay? Obviously if you have that farmemory we didn't utterly kill ourselves off.... this is good.
You may forget but let me tell you this: someone in some future time will think of us. -- Sappho
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Re: Thoughts
Date: 2018-08-24 09:08 pm (UTC)no, this isn't irony. This has been this way since time immemorial. You can lecture someone about the goodness of an idea, but if it's not one they've already bought into, it will bounce off their shields... but science has shown that a story or a song will slide behind those shields and hit your intended target, the same as if you'd hit Smaug's missing scale.
This is why the role of Bard has existed for as long as we remember... and why they're so important.
Hell. How did Joshua ben Joseph get his most important points across?
STORYTELLING.
Hillel? STORIES.
Siddhartha? STOOOOORY.
So.... it does work out okay? Obviously if you have that farmemory we didn't utterly kill ourselves off.... this is good.
You may forget but
let me tell you this:
someone in some future time will think of us.
-- Sappho
Wise lady. But you knew that alreddie...