[OSM-talk] Paweł's q: what can be done?

[Robin Paulson]

On 2013-02-05 20:15, Clifford Snow wrote:
> Yet Google gets the press that thanks to them, North Korea has now 
> been mapped. In an ideal world, the local
> community should be the lead communicator. But having a PR staff for 
> OSM is just smart. Good press is going to
> help us raise money for new servers and other infrastructure we'll 
> need. Lacking a local mapping community a
> PR staff could be the catalyst for the creation of new mapping 
> communities.

when i hear PR, i think edward bernays [1], freudian psyhocanalysis, 
anti-democratic impulses and mass manipulation. the century of the self 
[2] by adam curtis shows why, it talks extensively about PR and bernays 
in particular.

of bernays: "He felt this manipulation was necessary in society, which 
he regarded as irrational and dangerous as a result of the 'herd 
instinct' that [Wilfred] Trotter had described" [1]

perhaps we could stay away from that model of behaviour?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Bernays
[2] http://archive.org/details/AdamCurtis-TheCenturyOfTheSelf
free to download, and legal too.

-- 
robin

http://universitywithoutconditions.ac.nz - Auckland's Free University