[LMB] Dark Beta is slipping under the radar

[Elvi Dalgaard]

Raye Johnsen wrote:
> Dark Beta gains its strength not from enforcing its
> doctrines but from making alternatives to its
> doctrines seem to be utterly crazy, unthinkable,
> unreasonable.  To the average Australian, not voting
> is just unreasonable.  I support voting - but the fact
> that it's indoctrinated into us is a little bit
> frightening.  And makes me speculate on how to use the
> method we use here to do that on other things.
>   
The first analogy that pops into my head is seatbelt wearing. Everybody 
here does it automatically, feels naked without one, etc. But not so 
many years ago nobody wore them, and some people were upset with the 
idea of the government enforcing the wearing of the seatbelt.

If something is a good idea, I don't really see anything wrong with its 
becoming part of our culture and habit. Of course, there's always the 
argument that there's no such thing as a universally good idea, but it 
seems to me that things that are BAD ideas would have a much harder time 
becoming habits of an entire population.

Elvi