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 Posted: Tue Apr 01, 2008 6:02 am Post subject: Why don>t psychologists rule the world? |
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Psychologists will claim that their field of study gives them some
special insight into the human mind, and that they can pretty much
tell what a person is thinking by his words and behaviors. That
they can read minds is so accepted that their testimony is often
used in criminal trials to contradict witness statements.
So my question is why psychologists don>t use their magical mind-
reading abilities to make themselves extremely rich and powerful?
I would think that reading the minds of political or business
rivals would give someone a serious advantage and allow them to
rapidly rise to power and become the richest person on earth, yet
the vast majority of psychologists are satisfied to earn a few
hundred thousand dollars a year at most counseling losers.
A good comparison is to "psychics" who make a living performing
tarot card readings for losers instead of predicting tomorrow>s
stock prices. A typical American bookstore will carry as many
titles in the psychic new age section as the psychology section,
and the authors of both types of books derive their income
exclusively from those book sales. Or there are the talking
heads on teevee who earn a fixed salary analyzing stock price
fluctuations but who don>t actually take advantage of their
special insight to make themselves filthy rich. |
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| Posted: Tue Apr 01, 2008 7:18 pm Post subject: Re: Why don>t psychologists rule the world? |
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On Tue, 01 Apr 2008 01:02:18 GMT, dank <dank@nugget.org> wrote:
[quote]the vast majority of psychologists are satisfied to earn a few
hundred thousand dollars a year at most counseling losers.
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you call making a few hundred grand being a loser? are you still
high on that LSD you took the other day?
--
`We come now to the idea of the Gaeia Universe, where the whole of the Universe would be a single living entity of which all mankind is barely an organelle. But unlike the organisms of Earth, the elements of the Universe, energy and matter, are not connected by the bloody and battering interaction of consumption that we experience on Earth, but by the same forces of physics and mechanics which govern the aforementioned astronomical principles. The concept of pantheism proposes an additional connection, one of an overarching divine presence. In this divinity, mind and matter are one, and all things in the Universe are evenly connected'' --B.D. Abramson |
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| Posted: Wed Apr 02, 2008 10:58 am Post subject: Re: Why don>t psychologists rule the world? |
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On Tue, 01 Apr 2008 01:02:18 GMT, dank <dank@nugget.org> wrote:
[quote]Psychologists will claim that their field of study gives them some
special insight into the human mind, and that they can pretty much
tell what a person is thinking by his words and behaviors. That
they can read minds is so accepted that their testimony is often
used in criminal trials to contradict witness statements.
So my question is why psychologists don>t use their magical mind-
reading abilities to make themselves extremely rich and powerful?
[/quote]
They do.
[quote]I would think that reading the minds of political or business
rivals would give someone a serious advantage and allow them to
rapidly rise to power and become the richest person on earth,
[/quote]
The high level sociology people are the ones in control. They
study human behavior and what people want, and then get the
rewards that come from giving it to huge numbers of them at a
price. Movies are an excellent example. Movies give people
what they want, but they also have great influence on they
do want. So it all works together. Politicians are also excellent
examples. The presidency is the best example of sociologists
in action...the best group wins...the group that can create the
greatest attraction in the most people>s minds.
[quote]yet
the vast majority of psychologists are satisfied to earn a few
hundred thousand dollars a year at most counseling losers.
A good comparison is to "psychics" who make a living performing
tarot card readings for losers instead of predicting tomorrow>s
stock prices.
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That>s because they can>t really predict anything. All they
can do is convince other people that they can, but that>s
enough to get them whatever money they get out of it. What
they>re doing is selling a lie that other people are willing to pay
to try believing in.
[quote]A typical American bookstore will carry as many
titles in the psychic new age section as the psychology section,
and the authors of both types of books derive their income
exclusively from those book sales. Or there are the talking
heads on teevee who earn a fixed salary analyzing stock price
fluctuations but who don>t actually take advantage of their
special insight to make themselves filthy rich.
[/quote]
If they are actual humans they no doubt get paid for playing
the characters in whatever schemes are making other people
rich though. The people getting richest again would be skilled
sociologists most likely. |
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