Re: Idiocosmology

[Leigh Palmer <palmer@sfu.ca>]

> ...
> If the three stage cycle is run through between three and five times, each
> time picking a new difference, they tend to internalise the new description
> very well and drop their remembering of their old way of thinking.
>
> ...
>
> I present this only as an interesting approach.

It's been done. The procedure is known technically as "brain washing".
Josef Goebbels knew it; so did the Bellman:

  "Just the place for a Snark!" the Bellman cried,
  As he landed his crew with care;
  Supporting each man on the top of the tide
  By a finger entwined in his hair.

  "Just the place for a Snark! I have said it twice:
  That alone should encourage the crew.
  Just the place for a Snark! I have said it thrice:
  What I tell you three times is true."

  ...

Salviati employed the method well, but he had Simplicio to play off.

There's nothing new here.

Leigh