The bizarre GOP choice for VP has everyone giddy with disbelief.
But why this person? The chief points have been identified: Christian,
Maverick, Women, Inexperience, Celebrity, Reform, Change, Sex, Power,
Crime, Communication, Scandal, Danger, Terror, Hope, Safety, ETCETERAS....

But why this choice? begs the more revealing question: How does the selection of Palin function?

From a macro-propagandistic and even cybernetic- process perspective, the function is to create short-circuitry in the political spectrum and confusion in the electorate, which can thereby be reconditioned along the preferred lines of thought.  We are in the midst of a process of the reproduction of the necessary illusions and a significant maneuver in the manufacture of consent.

The choice of Palin has already succeeded in shifting the headlines from the 40 million Americans who watched one of the best acceptance speeches ever given (Please note that I've never been won over by the conservative content of Obama's policies), to the bold or strange or inexplicable choice.

The central zone of discharge for this exercise is a sexy (or at least in memory) beauty queen--her Daddy's prize spread on a dead bear, a celebrity with an appalling lack of experience--who charges the atmosphere with myriad and diverse attractants and repellents. It does not matter which--only that they be hypercharged in this our political hyperreality. First come the simulation of effects; later the people will be made to understand which description goes with which candidate.

(I recall that Reich posited a psychological conditioning among the electorate similar to the way an abused child inexorably and uncontrollably identifies with his abuser and thereby grows up to be an abuser. The lessons become cathected and beyond the re-call of mere reason. Think of his portrait of the sexy ignorant young Nazi hailing the Fuehrer or the deluded white males in the deep South who performed the ghastly bitter-fruit works of their masters and then constantly voted for these same bastards, who would make life for their families a living hell, but full of pride, patriotic enthusiasm and psycho-sexual fervor.)

Remember how The Manchurian Candidate's mother browbeat her Senator Husband, when he asked her to give him a specific and fixed number of the communist in the defense department instead of changing it every time he spoke. He said he felt like an idiot. Her response was for him to DO JUST WHAT HE'S TOLD, THAT THE PAPERS AREN'T ASKING IF THERE ARE COMMUNISTS ONLY HOW MANY. Under the right force of energies the delegates would insist that this idiot Senator be named the presidential nominee.

Strange attractors seem to pull the fields of forces into a new different form. That is what Rove has in mind here. We are dealing with an entirely different way of thinking: a propagandistic application of chaos theory applied to mass politics. Once the high-charged wires are crossed, and the energies are translated, confusion sets in, a new-pattern emerges, and it is the GOP that brings change, reform, and SAFETY. It doesn’t bloody matter that it's false. In fact, the bigger the lie the more people will believe it. 

The surge is working.

John Kerry is a hero John Kerry is a coward.

Just the shift of a few words charged with the alchemy of the media in the cauldron of human psychology.

Now tell me just how does she turn you on somehow with her particular perversities?

Processes will reorganize themselves about the strange attractor (howsoever low or laughable) if said effects are not neutralized.
 

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