Showing posts with label persuassion. Show all posts
Showing posts with label persuassion. Show all posts

23.7.11

I See You III: On lenses and persuasion

I've been loathe to do this next post because I'm wary of turning this into a social psychology blog, or even worse, a blog on lenses. I am very much aware that by no stretch of the imagination could I be considered a psychologist. The more I talk about lenses the more I feel like our contemporary glitterati who seem to think that a soap box (whether it come in the form of an Oscar nomination, a hit pop record or God-forbid, yet another reality show) gives them license to punditry. I still adhere to the old school notion that "expert" is not a title one may give oneself and yet by waxing on about psychology I fear I am betraying that belief. And yet, in true irrational fashion, I will proceed to give one more uninvited thought on the issue and hope that the real psychologists out there will grant me pardon.

My last post debated the merits of communicating your own lens versus trying to apply others'. However, I didn't touch the logical preceding question of the feasibility of changing lenses in the first place (which the former question assumes).