I started out this morning going to the
Conservative Treehouse blog. Sandwiched between a
blog post on how
great the latest video put out by Russell Brand was, complete with a
picture of him with his arms stretched out and his 33 tattoo clearly
visible, and a
post concerning the recent Twitter files dump that
clearly states that public comments are monitored for nefarious
reasons, was a
post asking people to state WHY they did not get the
shot.
Now, I may not normally have had a
problem with this post, but Sundance stated THREE times that he was
only asking because he was “genuinely curious”. When I am writing
up a blog post I try not to say the same thing over and over. I will
try to look at alternative ways of saying it so as not to repeat
myself. The fact that he used the same wording “genuinely curious”
three times in two paragraphs set off my radar. You know who else may
be genuinely curious as to why? The enemy.
There is a school of thought that when
you say something three times it becomes a spell. The kind of spell
that puts people to sleep so that they don't question why you are
asking and in what capacity will you be using the information. In
fact, I feel that if you really were just asking because you were
genuinely curious it would be unnecessary to state that three times.
As in, a little too over the top reassurances. I believe you were
required to say Betelgeuse name three times in order to summon him.
Of course this entire paragraph could just be crazy talk!
By the time I finally sat down to write
this, the original genuinely curious post had been updated and bumped
up to the top. You have to scroll down all the way to the bottom of
the post to see where he stated genuinely curious three times. The
update just gushed about how over 2000 people responded. I'm sure
that information can now be fed into the Database From Hell and the
evil AI can figure out a way to convince those respondents to change
their minds and bow down and roll up their sleeves. Or not. Who
knows. Could just be the way I'm seeing it...
Take care out there.