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In my government class in school the term "mass public" is used to represent the uninformed complacent majority of people in our country. America is a country of majorities; MTV exists solely because it entertains the mass public, the majority of Americans who live off of human instinct vs. human reason. The mass public sees an attractive person and buys into them; they do not look through life for intellectual material but instead live off of simple instinct. One must admit that it is difficult to look at a beautiful person and see through them; to dismiss them because they lack a brain, because our animal instincs want us to mate. It is alot easier to dismiss an ugly person without a personality. We must place reason above instinct.

The second level of public is the informed public, people at a more aware level of consciousness but also people who don't do much with it. The highest level is the opinion maker; Tool is an opinion maker for the informed public while the rhetorical bureaucratic politicians that control all of us only represent the mindless mass public who believe what politicians say only because they do not undertand what they say. The informed public finds it difficult to agree with our government because our government doesn't truly represent us, it represents the majority.
I think that when Maynard asks us to continue and exceed the legacy of Tool, he is asking us to become opinion makers, to fulfill our need as the informed public to "spiral out" and go a step higher, and to inspire people to create informed people out of the herd of mindless sheep we know as the mass public.

12-11-2002, 04:12 PM	#12
jlazarus Level 1 - Lurker Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: San Diego, CA Posts: 1 Bincount™: 0	Mass Public In my government class in school the term "mass public" is used to represent the uninformed complacent majority of people in our country. America is a country of majorities; MTV exists solely because it entertains the mass public, the majority of Americans who live off of human instinct vs. human reason. The mass public sees an attractive person and buys into them; they do not look through life for intellectual material but instead live off of simple instinct. One must admit that it is difficult to look at a beautiful person and see through them; to dismiss them because they lack a brain, because our animal instincs want us to mate. It is alot easier to dismiss an ugly person without a personality. We must place reason above instinct. The second level of public is the informed public, people at a more aware level of consciousness but also people who don't do much with it. The highest level is the opinion maker; Tool is an opinion maker for the informed public while the rhetorical bureaucratic politicians that control all of us only represent the mindless mass public who believe what politicians say only because they do not undertand what they say. The informed public finds it difficult to agree with our government because our government doesn't truly represent us, it represents the majority. I think that when Maynard asks us to continue and exceed the legacy of Tool, he is asking us to become opinion makers, to fulfill our need as the informed public to "spiral out" and go a step higher, and to inspire people to create informed people out of the herd of mindless sheep we know as the mass public.
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