{"id":31603,"date":"2016-12-21T01:00:04","date_gmt":"2016-12-21T06:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=31603"},"modified":"2018-09-24T12:33:47","modified_gmt":"2018-09-24T16:33:47","slug":"qotd-the-hidden-hypnotic-power-of-glamour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2016\/12\/21\/qotd-the-hidden-hypnotic-power-of-glamour\/","title":{"rendered":"QotD: The hidden hypnotic power of glamour"},"content":{"rendered":"

We\u2019ve seen the same effect over and over again with people who comment on blogs (clears throat) both cultural and political, and even historical and that, no matter how often they\u2019re proven wrong, keep coming back and stating the same thing they said in different words, as though that would make it true. They seem incapable of processing challenges, doubts, or even factual disproof of their charges.<\/p>\n

Glamor. They\u2019re under an enchantment. Something has affected them so hard, they can\u2019t think, but can only repeat what they were told.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s not true, of course. Or not quite.<\/p>\n

The enchantment of the \u201ccool kids\u201d is the glamor of social approbation and of opinions as positional goods.<\/p>\n

People who have bought into an hierarchy of opinions, with some of the opinions \u201cpolitically correct\u201d no matter how factually wrong, have agreed to put themselves under the arbitrary power of others, and to subsume their reason and thought to them.<\/p>\n

In other words, they have agreed not to think or see for themselves, because if they do they will be cast out of the \u201ccool kids\u201d and treated as pariahs or the enemy. And they\u2019ve seen what happens to those (us) the calumnies, the big lies, the personal character destruction.<\/p>\n

They\u2019re so scared of it, that they\u2019ll do anything and say anything and believe anything. Including changing their opinions on a dime, as the opinions of the \u201cin crowd\u201d change.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s hard to break enchantments. Particularly enchantments as ambitious as this, which attempts to make an entire culture see what isn\u2019t there and ignore what is.<\/p>\n

To cast it, it required tight control of mass media and gate keeping of culture, both powers that are fast running out on the gatekeepers, as the internet replaces their magic.<\/p>\n

Some magic remains. Those organs of mass media that still have whatever power like their sources to have credentials: \u201ceditor at\u2014\u201d or even better \u201cwon prestigious award.\u201d<\/p>\n

Those awards, those positions are things to conjure with. Which is why the fight over the awards matters to the establishment, the \u201ccool kids\u201d. No matter how debased in the real world, those awards help them cast glamor over the unwary.<\/p>\n

Which is why the screaming and the moaning, the gnashing of teeth and the politics of personal destruction over an award that has no monetary benefit.<\/p>\n

Because it\u2019s an aid to a glamor that\u2019s fast fading.<\/p>\n

Those involved would do well to keep their minds clear on two things: the instruments of the glamor are fading. You can\u2019t keep them from fading, short of the sort of cataclysm that plunges the world into a medieval reenactment. And that too will take their instruments away.<\/p>\n

Sarah Hoyt, “Glamor and Fairy Gold”, According to Hoyt<\/em><\/a>, 2015-06-02.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We\u2019ve seen the same effect over and over again with people who comment on blogs (clears throat) both cultural and political, and even historical and that, no matter how often they\u2019re proven wrong, keep coming back and stating the same thing they said in different words, as though that would make it true. They seem […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35193,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[28,53,41],"tags":[262,943,351,1236,997],"class_list":["post-31603","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media","category-politics","category-quotations","tag-culture","tag-glamour","tag-politicalcorrectness","tag-positionalgoods","tag-socialjustice"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/favicon.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-8dJ","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31603","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31603"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31603\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31604,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31603\/revisions\/31604"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31603"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31603"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31603"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}