Harish's World - neither here nor there...

I am surprised that the human mind is so gullible. Just how easy it is for someone to jump to conclusions without even waiting to get the complete fact or story. No wonder the more intelligent beings of the human race so easily manipulate the others and get away with anything. You must be wondering what am I blabbering? Well proceed further only after you have read this article (including the comments).

Ok, now what has that article do with this? Well, everything. What I wanted to convey through it was completely different than what many thought I was trying to convey. To be frank, just one person seemed to have got the point I have conveyed out the many others who have either posted a comment or had a chat with me or mailed me their opinion.

This got me thinking. Using this tendency of humans to jump to conclusion is it possible to always accomplish your goal. I guess it has worked in many cases. A typical example is used in agreements, where people generally think that the words in large print is what is important and many a times ignore the fine print and later suffer the consequences.

Will the same effect be possible even without the fine print. I guess it will. Take the case of this article. I am a fan of Lara. Now almost everyone who has given their opinion on this write-up knows it. I also mention his dismissals in the first part of the article. One reason I mentioned it was, well I found it difficult to believe that, if these were out, then why the many other clearer appeals were not given. A more important reason for mentioning it was I wanted to see how many jump to the conclusion I thought they would and I was surprised to see many did. They thought they were putting two and two together and concluded my article was supposedly on Lara's dismissals. And concentrating on this aspect of the article I think they have kind of ignored the essence of it (at least what I thought was the essence as an author or I am such a bad writer that I myself don't know how to write. But I have to agree the Title did help in their conclusion). Still I feel that since at least 1 person could get what I wanted to convey, I haven't conveyed it badly. It is just the way people perceive things. Let me assure you the person I am talking about is not a supporter of Lara.

So if this works, then won't even the opposite work? Start off with something everybody likes or agrees upon, and add inconspicuously whatever they wouldn't generally agree upon in between. Shouldn't this be enough to fool majority of the people? There is also a possibility that some people agree on something just because others he/she knows (whether famous or not) agree to it. This is another major flaw of the human psychology which I have seen has been used to great effect by many.