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0527 Creel and his associates support presentations of propaganda<\/em> at locations where crowds gather and people are vulnerable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The so-called “four-minute men”<\/em> engage an audience in a film theater <\/em>during the four-minutes that it takes to change a reel of film<\/em>.  These four-minute men testify to our patriotic duty and to our need to enter the European war.  The presumption is that what the four-minute man is willing to say [objectifies] what the orator thinks<\/em>.  But, that is not honestly the case, since the four-minute presenter knows that he is a mouthpiece [that cannot truly objectify] the slogan that America can, and will, end war, itself<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

0528 The venue for such presentations is cleverly chosen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Practically, there can be no debate, since the films must go on.  People come to see the films.  So, only the time between reels<\/em> is available for a testimonial.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Theoretically, each theater has no perspective other than the venue itself.  Similarly, each battle among enlightenment gods<\/em> has no perspective other than itself.  Likewise, the relativist one3c<\/sub> represents no perspective other than itself.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

0529 This loss of perspective<\/em> parallels the slogan, popularized in the modern era, of “art for art’s sake”.  Art has no perspective other than the venue itself.  Consequently, official displays of artistic works<\/em> defines what “art” is,<\/em> not on the basis of some sort of criteria or aesthetic, but on the basis of a gallery or a museum acting as an interventional sign-object<\/em>(SOi<\/sub>).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This is the way of the interventional sign-relation,<\/em> if there is a content-level sign-object<\/em> (an art gallery or museum) that can be witnessed, then there must be a perspective-level sign-vehicle<\/em> (corresponding to “art” as a transcendental value) that cannot be witnessed.  The interventional sign-vehicle must be inferred.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If SOi<\/sub>, then SVi<\/sub>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This is not logic.  This is the nature of the interventional sign-relation<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

0530 Here is a difficulty.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since the audiences of the four-minute men<\/em> are at the film theater in order to entertained by moving pictures (which are obviously illusions), why would they take seriously anything said by an orator speaking between reels?<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

0531 One answer may be that the purely relational structure of the interventional sign-relation<\/em> is built into the hominin mind.  It may be an adaptation to hand-talk in the Lebenswelt that we evolved in<\/em>.  After all, hand-talk itself is a key adaptation to teams (at first) and communities (after the domestication of fire).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Why not imagine that everything that we subjectively witness<\/em> is the hand-talk of a supra-subjective presence?<\/em>  Why not imagine that a supra-subjective presence2c<\/sub><\/em> (SVi<\/sub>) stands for whatever we think and talk about2a<\/sub><\/em> (SOi<\/sub>) in regards to a normal context3a<\/sub> and a potential1a<\/sub> that each hominin exhibits<\/em> (when engaged in team and community collaborative activities) (SIi<\/sub>)?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Plus, since hand-talk does not facilitate explicit abstraction, why not imagine that the interventional sign-relation<\/em> is built into what we evolved to be?<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

0532 Only after the first singularity, with the ability of purely symbolic speech-alone talk<\/em> to label anything<\/em> and everything,<\/em>can we break down the interventional sign-interpretant (SIi<\/sub>) into a content-level normal context3a<\/sub> and potential1a<\/sub><\/em>. Plus, we can associate these two elements to intellect3a<\/sub><\/em> and will1a<\/sub>, <\/em>respectively.  Steve Fuller notes that “reason3a,1a<\/sub>” consists of both intellect and will.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

0533 Even in our current Lebenswelt,<\/em> we tune into the interventional sign-relation, <\/em>even when we go to the film theater with our dates.  As already mentioned, the theory behind theater<\/em> is that there is no hidden agenda behind the theater<\/em>.  The theater denies any supra-subjective being2c<\/sub> that otherwise might be present.  I mean, it’s not like church, where a supra-subjective presence2c<\/sub> is palpable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

No hidden agenda2c<\/sub><\/em> (SVi<\/sub>) stands for my entertainment while attending theater2a<\/sub><\/em> (SOi<\/sub>) in regards to reason3a,1a<\/sub>, defined as my intellect3a<\/sub> contextualizing my will1a<\/sub><\/em> (SIi<\/sub>).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"\"<\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

0534 So, what happens when one of Creel’s four-minute men<\/em> takes the stage while the staff changes reels?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The interventional sign-relation<\/em> changes subtly, from passively processing images that do not pertain to me<\/em> to actively processing talk that recalls that I belong to teams and communities<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

0535 Yes, the four-minute audience feels the actualization of an interventional sign-relation,<\/em> where a suprasubjective judgment to go to war2c<\/sub><\/em> (SVi<\/sub>) stands for the four-minute orator’s words2a<\/sub><\/em> (SOi<\/sub>) in regards to “our” reason3a,1a<\/sub><\/em> (SIi<\/sub>).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A technical word for this actualization is coined by French Marxist theorist, Louis Althusser (1918-1990 AD).  The word is “interpellation”.  Interpellation plays a role in A Primer on How Institutions Think<\/em> (by Razie Mah, available at smashwords and other e-book venues).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

0536 The four-minute man<\/em> offers a way to fill in the terms<\/em> for the content-level for the scrappy player level<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Many take the bait.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"\"<\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

As soon as a member of the audience takes the bait, there is a catharsis.  My agreement with the four-minute man [can be objectified by] what I say<\/em>.  “We” agree with the will1a<\/sub> of the four-minute man<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

0537 So, my conclusion may sound a little bit theological.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This is not about truth.  The orator’s announcement of the coming of the kingdom of Woodrow Wilson’s Committee on Public Information<\/em> offers a way to fill in the empty elements on the scrappy player level<\/em> with specific food for thought<\/em>.  We can enter the Great War.  We can call it A War To End All Wars<\/em>.  Aspiration becomes inspiration.  Inspiration leads to collective action.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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