Détournement: Fighting back
Submitted by F-Buzz on Sat, 11/07/2009 - 11:28
In the primaries, we were effectively marginalized by the word kook. We need to take this very word and flip it back on them. Creating a counter meme that will infiltrate the American subconscious will greatly improve our chances in 2010 and 2012. We can't leave it up to our candidate to win over the people in the debates, we need to get the masses thinking this way.
When you read someone advocating jingoism, call it out. Leave a comment, call them a kook for thinking we can financially or morally sustain a foreign policy of infinite occupation without going bankrupt or creating a massive list of new enemies. If your friends and family really think America needs to be the only superpower in the world, you need to call them kooks. We need to flood the media and conversations with this very simple one word response that will flip the debate in our favor. Be creative, I have included a list of synonyms and definitions below.
It was how they made us look like fools, and it is how we are going to change the way they think.
Glossary:
Kook - one whose ideas or actions are eccentric, fantastic, or insane : screwball
Synonyms - crackpot, crank, crazy*, dingbat, flake, fruitcake, lamebrain, lunatic, nut, screwball, wacko, weirdo
Détournement - The term "détournement", borrowed from the French, originated with the Situationist International; a similar term more familiar to English speakers would be "turnabout" or "derailment". Détournement is similar to satirical parody, but employs more direct reuse or faithful mimicry of the original works rather than constructing a new work which merely alludes strongly to the original
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D%C3%A9tournement
Meme - A meme (pronounced /ˈmiːm/, rhyming with "cream"[1]) is a postulated unit of cultural ideas, symbols or practices, which can be transmitted from one mind to another through speech, gestures, rituals or other imitable phenomena
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meme
Memetic engineering: is a term developed and coined by Leveious Rolando, John Sokol, and Gibran Burchett while they researched and observed the behavior of people after being purposely exposed (knowingly and unknowingly) to certain memetic themes. The term is based on Richard Dawkins' theory of memes.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memetic_engineering
Your right it is
kooky to think they can invade countries and finance health care and every other damn thing they can think of while we are in bankruptcy.
thanks for the mighty first bump
We need to really embrace the way debates have gone. If they can thwart our message with one word, we can do the same to them with that same word. It's a fight for our culture and we have logic on our side.
I'm going to start flooding boards with this. I think we get bogged down with long winded explanations and rebuttals, when we can sum up our stance with a short sentence or two. If we can change the way people see things, we can change the whole game.
If everyone is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking. - George S. Patton