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sKePTiKal:
me too, tt!

That's kinda what happens in creative brainstorming sessions. Anything and everything* that comes to mind is allowed to be said and "thrown against the wall" to see if it sticks - and when more than one person can start taking that idea and going further, developing it, simplifying it... then the group generally, by consensus, has got a "winner".

* and I mean ANYTHING - it's no holds barred, spew out whatever associations, visual images, slogans, snippets of songs... that pop into ones head. After that... process of elimination of things that were "DOA" as far carrying the message and further refinement of the ideas/associations that do.

Best thing of all - no one's "right" or "wrong"... even the most lame, dumb and rediculous ideas are expected to be tossed on the table and considered... on the merit of the idea - not the speaker. I've seen those silly ideas rise to top, after hours & hours of looking at other possibilities... and with an appropriate image make-over... be long-term successful.

I've also noticed that positive ideas last longer in the public mind than negative ones - in advertising. You'd think that would catch on elsewhere, wouldn't you? But, what I've been noticing is that what people (media, politics) are arguing about, can be reduced to who and what is "right"... and some, more than others are frightfully insecure and really, really "need" to be right... and are mortally terrified about being wrong. And no is acknowledging the fact that there is no one "right" answer - no one size fits all solution... and they're locked in the paralysis of fearing to do something that might be wrong and bullying others to buy into their vision of what's "right"........ SIGH.

There was a web-blog I used to visit called "Everyone Needs Therapy". I think the whole culture can use some therapy, these days.

Guest:

--- Quote from: teartracks on November 05, 2011, 09:24:41 PM ---




PR,

I wonder what it would be like if so much pressure wasn't placed on sanitizing everything we say. 

tt






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I am not PR but if I didn't 'sanitize' what I say, I imagine I'd get punched quite a bit and eventually I might be forced in to some political position; probably a right-wing one, completely against my will.

As for brainstorming (don't think you can keep this convo to yourselves, ladies), I said in one of those fun events, not in these words but far more acceptable ones: "this company is all fur coat and no knickers" ie: it's an ambitious front with nothing to back it up....oh "interesting" said the director present. Yeah right! The company folded, of course.


--- Quote ---I think the whole culture can use some therapy, these days.
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Culture? Whose culture? Is there more than one these days I wonder. Superficially maybe.


--- Quote from: teartracks on November 05, 2011, 09:19:49 PM ---





--- Quote ---I guess thoughts are never wasted.
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It's the action or non action they prompt in/from us that determines their value temporal and/or eternal.

tt

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I'm not arguing with that...

teartracks:



From: The Message

Words kill, words give life;

they're either poison or fruit—you choose.

tt

Guest:
I like it TT. A bit black and white. Words can also mean pretty much nothing. Like many text messages I receive, which are almost meaningless.

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