Steps To A Mental Model
- March 26, 2003
- 2 comments
Garret at dangerousmeta! and I have exchanged a few emails today over a conversation we had on “fear tactics” and perception. I showed him something I had learned at a communications course when I was in Melbourne a few years back. It’s a diagram of how people perceive and interpret the world around them. Garret suggested that I post the diagram on my site, so I have…
It’s an excellent way of showing how two different people can see the same “data”, and yet come to two completely different conclusions. An excellent example of this is how the Arab world is perceving and reacting to the same images of the war we are seeing. Or even how a “genuine” anti-war demonstrator comes to a completely different conclusion about the war on Iraq than myself. I say genuine because I believe there are those who are simply anti-American anarchists and not simply anti-war.
Another good example. A very close American friend of mine who lives in Switzerland has another take on the US and it’s foreign policy. I don’t agree at all with what he’s saying here, but on other issues, he and I think a lot alike.
Sounds like comm theory of sorts… should I dust off my old college textbooks?