Re: How to reach the masses

From: Samantha Atkins (samantha@objectent.com)
Date: Thu Sep 14 2000 - 02:09:50 MDT


"Eliezer S. Yudkowsky" wrote:
>
> The one thing you can never, ever do is condescend to your audience. Do so,
> and you lose the empathy that lets you communicate effectively; you lose the
> ability to transfer thoughts from yourself to the audience, and are left with
> nothing but a few lifeless tricks of propaganda.
>

Sure. But it is not condescending to meet them half way. Or to flesh
your dream as an extension and the true fruition of their own.
Especially when there is quite a bit of truth in that view if you look
at it just so.

- samantha



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