#31 Harumphty Dumpty | 2011-10-26 19:55
@Horus: Point taken on the "101st time."
I'll read that good post of yours again; the part that stuck in my mind from days ago was exactly your point here, that "Appealing to rabbits will not work. You have to attract them."
I'd been posting recruitment posts on Amren and your remark made me wonder if I was wasting my time, since I didn't seem to be getting any response from Amren readers.
Maybe this query belongs on a different thread, but are you saying that our approach on pro-White sites like Amren should be essentially the same as elsewhere? Custom fitted to the subject at hand, but focusing on repeating the White Genocide idea and our other phrases? I've tried to include that, but it hasn't been my primary thrust on Amren. Do you think it should be? I'm beginning to think it should be, because the readers at Amren seem no more receptive to new ideas introduced by explanation and reason than are any other audience! (Why am I surprised, but I am).
I'm thinking now that the customary type of bugster post, with nothing additional being said other than just a link to our "where did you post the mantra today" thread, strikes a more confident pose than explicit attempts at persuasion, and might have more appeal.
I myself was not attracted here by any knowledge of what you guys were doing out there in mainstream cyber-land.
I stumbled across this site while poking around in pro-White cyber space, and was attracted that a group of people were posting more or less together. That's all I observed at first, and it's something I've long wanted, so I jumped right in and then was told there was a Mantra behind the great posts I was imitating. It took a couple of days for the idea of genocide to rest easy in my brain, but when I finally got it I liked it.
If I'd come across you guys out in mainstream cyber space, I doubt I would have tried to track you down and locate you.
So some questions I'm beginning to think about, and maybe I'll get into a discussion with Calvert about it over on SF, as well as discussion here, is what desires could I appeal to in readers at Amren that might draw them here? (Since I'm still thinking about that, I may still not be fully getting, or maybe accepting, your point yet!). The sort of question that advertising men ask themselves: what are the general motivations of my audience that I can appeal to?
Perhaps a lot of the Amren audience are like myself...a bit isolated, desirous of a little more human contact even if just in cyber-space, and would be drawn by the same appeal I felt: the opportunity to be part of a group effort while having enlarged scope for one's intelligence and creativity. If I try to work that possibility at Amren, I will be as subliminal as I can to appeal to the types who think of themselves as iron men of steely self-sufficiency even as they're near perishing of loneliness. And so on.
Aside from the Mantra, I don't think we've even dipped our toes in the huge field of motivational research. If I stick here, as I hope to, I plan to start reading in that area. I've just begun a book very popular when I was a youngster, "The Hidden Persuaders."