Saturday, December 31, 2005
IMAGE vs SUBSTANCE
In our world today it is fashionable to spend more energy and time on creating an "IMAGE" than being concerned and concentrating on what is really important. I guess that is the legacy of "Ronnie The Rat" and his Trickle Down Theory and the current nit-wit republicans in office. By that I am saying that when the boys in the White House find it expedient for their purposes to concentrate on perception more than substance, because they have no substance, the sheep will surely follow. I am not saying that image isn't important but it is liken to respect...IT HAS TO BE EARNED! You can't just spin into existence, by changing a name...( North Adams State Normal Teachers College to MCLA) and wham!!! now you are a player in the big league. You get a reputation, and it is usually earned. In their stampede to disasociate themselves with North Adams and grab onto the brass ring of higher learning and wanting to be in the forefront of political correctness they have lost more than they have gained, but then what do they really care, after the damage has been done they just move on! And another thing.....What's wrong with being called "THE MOHAWKS"? It certainty speaks to the heritage of the area and lends itself to respecting a people by wanting to remember them. So what do you think?.....Is IMAGE more important than Substance?........ IT's YOUR DIME
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I can think of a few times where image was more important than substance. The history buffs among us will know better than I, but there were occasions in WWI and WWII,probably all wars I guess - thinking Revolutionary here, where the allied forces were successful more for what the eneny thought they had than for what they really had. I also would include coming out of the depression and FDR's new deal as times when image was more important than substance.
To me the difference is what the image is used for. Certainly Nixon and now Bush II have tried to hide behind image in order to save there skin. Didn't work the first time, it will very interesting to see if it will work this time.
Image...or the preception presented to the target is very inportant. We would have never gone to war if the preception presented was not of a sneek attack by Japan. (though we all know that it was a set up by the White House who had full knowledge of what was to transpire) (spin) It can be used for positive purposes but unfotunately it has been hijacked and morphed into "spin" Some feel that "IMAGE" is what is most inportant thing in life not the substance behind the image. Truth is not as inportant as Fiction! They seem to think that every one is an idiot and just because they say it is so people are gullible enough to believe it is so....I don't think so! They are lacking something in their perception of reality. In todays world, if you want to spew, you have to be able to back it up with substance and facts....but unfortunately the spewers today like to hide behind whatever they can to hide facts. Image is very important because it sings to what we are, what we believe, and most inportantly, how others preceive us.....If somehow you can, by whatever means available to you, control your image to reflect you in the positive, then you can truely live in fantisy land....The Republicans are stumbling down this path as we speak as are others, State Gov., City Gov., and others! Maybe I am the one living in Fantisy Land by believing that your image is liken to a badge,..... it is earned!..... for good or bad, you reap what you sow! I have always been very leary of people that try to control their image by hiding behind this, that, or the other thing, locking this out or that out! Ever notice how any politicion who rags on the press usually has something to hide?
The absoluteTRUTH is unimportant--- it is what you believe to be the TRUTH that's important--because that is what you act on--- vhbpod
A very keen observation but it has holes in it. Just because you believe something to be the truth doesn't make it so. I think the courts also would agree with me. Absolute Truth is the only truth! If you act on what you preceve to be the truth without any substance behind it...and you are wrong...then the fool be you!
Sorry Southview--- truth is what you believe it to be--and that's what you act on---and that's what counts-- sitting home picking linit out of your navel-- trying to determine what is the "truth" is not reality----thus there are many truths---- lefty truth is that the right wing is trying to take over the country-- and the righty truth is that the left wing is trying to take over the country---- they are both correct----but the left ascribes no truths to the right and vice versa---there is no absolute truth except for the truths conjured up by the windmills of your mind ( don't take that personally) should have written "one's mind"--chbpod
cjt- is partially correct about the Mohawks and PC-- BUT remember Aceto wanted to re-shape the college into the image he thought it should be-- that meant wholesale changes--- name change and mascot change among other things---Go Noles!!!!!! win the Geezer Bowl tomorrow night!!!!
chbpod
chbpod.....You seem to want to include "preceived reality" into the definition of "truth"? They are two different animals. Truth is synonymous with fact. And as the left wing and the right wing are concerned, neighter one has a clue! (Truth = Fact = absolute truth) (preceived truth = diluted perception = desillutionment)
well maybe I wasn't all that clear----the absolute truth is irrelevant---it's what people belive to be the truth that is important because that is what they act upon----given that people see things differently-- and that both sides think that they know the truth?? from an objective standard---they don't --- facts are facts-- but how there are interpreted and "spun" makes for different conclusions-- chbpod
OK, chbpod now I fathom what you are saying. Being a Libra and a French descendent, you have to excuse my thick headedness, I sometimes have problems with abstract thought, I tend to like things Black or White, True or False. But then I must say to you, If there are so many different truths, then what is the real truth. If you give a test in class and someone answere all the questions contrary to your preceived correct answers, and their answers are their preception of the truth, do you give them a passing grade? You seem to feel that "truth" is an abstract thought, based upon a persons interpertation of reality, which I agree with you is more the case than not, but then that is just a preceived reality not truth. So I agree with you and you agree with me! :~ )
Thank you!
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