[lbo-talk] Chomsky

[Yoshie Furuhashi]

>andie nachgeborenen wrote:
>>[clip] successful marketing calls for building a smaller but very loyal base.
>
>Exactly what I've been arguing for years on this list: that at any 
>given time we only reach those who in some important way already 
>agree with us. This is always greeted by mindless catcalls to the 
>effect that I only want to talk to ideological purists or something 
>like that. But the only way to reach those who _don't_ already agree 
>with us is to reach those who do agree and who personally know 
>others who don't.
>
>Carrol

Maybe, when folks on LBO-talk hear the phrase "talking to those who 
already agree with us," their brains spontaneously substitute it for 
a radically different one: "talking only to those who already agree 
with us on _everything_, including dietary preferences."
-- 
Yoshie

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