For those who believe mankind needs to re-evaluate and change the roles each one of us plays in our ecosystem of finite resources, to redirect our impact on future generations and their ways of life.
Thursday, February 07, 2008
Oily Cassandra--i.e., how to get men to listen to peak oil
Very funny. Is that you or a hired college student?
As a man, I found that my brain was unable to multi-task.
So it quickly switched into watching the soft porn on the right and ignoring the verbal message.
Also because I happen to be a "visual" thinker rather than an auditory-centric one, the visual on the right over-whelmed my neo-cortex and prevented it from entering into a critical visual thinking mode.
The idea of using Madison Avenue techniques is of course a good one. However it needs much more work so as to get the message across. What if you had the dancer step over from a blank screen backdrop to one that shows a Hubbert curve and she starts pointing to key aspects as she dances? And the music is a rap song that conveys the message? That would help the non-multi-tasking male brain to better integrate all the mixed messages.
Good first attempt.
--just a few feedback observations from a Neanderthal male :-)
2 comments:
Cassandra,
Very funny. Is that you or a hired college student?
As a man, I found that my brain was unable to multi-task.
So it quickly switched into watching the soft porn on the right and ignoring the verbal message.
Also because I happen to be a "visual" thinker rather than an auditory-centric one, the visual on the right over-whelmed my neo-cortex and prevented it from entering into a critical visual thinking mode.
The idea of using Madison Avenue techniques is of course a good one. However it needs much more work so as to get the message across. What if you had the dancer step over from a blank screen backdrop to one that shows a Hubbert curve and she starts pointing to key aspects as she dances? And the music is a rap song that conveys the message? That would help the non-multi-tasking male brain to better integrate all the mixed messages.
Good first attempt.
--just a few feedback observations from a Neanderthal male :-)
Hm, as a female, no issues with multi-tasking. Maybe males need to watch it twice ... for each side of the brain. ;-)
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