I bought this book in the hope that I would understand how certain political ideas are spread enough so that I might sabotage some of them and spread some of my own ideas.
It is a fiction that people are rational and now even more than in 2005 they seem to have lost their minds. I applaud your wanting to market good ideas but I'm afraid there needs to be money in it to get people interested.
Money would certainly make it easier, but churches and non-profits somehow manage to get people to support them, so it is not hopeless. Also, money itself is an idea and people have different ideas about money that can be manipulated. I think the two biggest problems is that people are not honest about what motivates them (making them hard to influence) and that no idea operates in a vacuum; they are all interconnected and changing one changes everything (requiring someone much smarter than me figure it all out).
It is a fiction that people are rational and now even more than in 2005 they seem to have lost their minds. I applaud your wanting to market good ideas but I'm afraid there needs to be money in it to get people interested.
Money would certainly make it easier, but churches and non-profits somehow manage to get people to support them, so it is not hopeless. Also, money itself is an idea and people have different ideas about money that can be manipulated. I think the two biggest problems is that people are not honest about what motivates them (making them hard to influence) and that no idea operates in a vacuum; they are all interconnected and changing one changes everything (requiring someone much smarter than me figure it all out).