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                                             November 23, 2009
                                             October  25, 2013


Another exercise.

                A starting point:

                To distingusish between
                paid propangists and
                real human beings, you          THE_TOY_WEB
                need to know who you're
                talking to.

    METHOD_OF_LIGHT

    refract, reflect, focus, filter

refract

       A spectrum of humanity,
       not just a single class:
       a hired public relations
       agent may actually know
       something worth hearing,
       an amateur may still be          Identity is necessary,
       a propagandist, though not       but not sufficient:
       a volunteer.                     one must have a way
                                        of evaluating quality.

reflect                                                 And might not
                                                        that be focus
       One might want to know identities                and filter?
       in order to find the professionals
       rather than to exclude them.                        (I'm switching
                                                            subjects in the
              (Citizendium)                                 middle...)



Back to the starting point:

   You might ask if the premise
   is correct: are there other       Is asking that
   ways you might identify a         question a reversal
   hired gun, soley through          (a reflection),
   analysis of style or content?     or perhaps some sort
                                     of refraction?
      The answer is yes, a
      perceptive reader can
      do this, but it's
      usually impossible to
      convince someone else             To really "focus" we'd
      you've done it                    have to get down to
      correctly, so it                  the technical means,
      doesn't work to develop           what do you consider
      a body of shared                  adequate means of
      knowledge.                        establishing identity?






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