Icky,

Your premise that ordinary political rhetoric is hypnotic is itself disingenuous. Ever since the Greeks people have used rhetoric to stir up sentiments and thoughts in other people, and it is no big news that this can include the persuasion of ideas which do not stand up to closer examination when sorted out and examined more closely. That is not hypnotism in any formal sense--it's just ordinary human rhetoric, human gullibility, and human stupidity. I think asserting it is some special hypnotic technique used by Obama is itself an inaccurate idea being pushed with an alarm flag tied to it so one might accept it under the temporary influence of fear. Obama is a good public speaker, but he is not using Jedi mind tricks on the populace. Maybe you are so un-used to being spoken to by an intelligent and respectful politician that you think it must be some kind of trick?

Seems to me this is pseudo-science gobbledygook being used as a thin cover for unfounded alarmism.

Well, gotta run, I'm getting an alert notice to report in to the Galactic Patrol to have my conditioning refreshed. Nice talking to ya!


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BTW, here's an inside tip: the aluminum foil MUST be shiny side out or it won't work, and the standard transmission time is always anchored to Greenwich as zero-hour.