How not to make friends and influence people

Please read the following statement carefully, it makes a very important point:

Alex Jones, you are a fucking idiot!

Are you still reading? If you are, do you think I am likely to be able to persuade Alex Jones to listen to what I have to say? It's very unlikely, eh!

Yet, this is the way Alex Jones approaches anybody who he considers to be wrong. Todays radio rant contained the usual 'moron' and 'idiot' insults sprinkled liberally within his now trademark mantra about the left/right paradigm and accusations that anybody who does not view the world through Alex Jones' sunglasses is a communist.

That doesn't sound to me like a false left/right paradigm at all - it sounds like a very real, tangible paradigm which is alive and ticking in the time bomb mind of Alex Jones. It would be interesting to count just how many times Jones yells the word 'communist' during a three hour broadcast.

If the Occupy Wall Street protesters are communists, according to the left/right paradox, which in the mind of Alex Jones, like Schrödinger's cat, exists and does not exist simultaneously, Alex Jones is, ipso facto, a fascist.

But what's this? Today, I witnessed Jones say, 'they label the Occupy Wall Street a bunch of Communists so that people think that if you protest Wall Street you are a communist'. (see video below).

They? Is that right, did I hear him say, 'they'? Now, I have been following the Occupy Wall Street protests for the last few weeks and the only time I have heard them described as 'communists' has been on Alex Jones radio programme, mainly by Alex Jones himself.

Jones is pretty handy when it comes to name calling and, as already mentioned, he is pretty sensitive to the way that he himself is labelled a conspiracy theorist. If you are really serious about trying to share information with people, Alex, hurling insults is not the way to go.