If I put a fence up around my house which prevents people from walking onto my yard when they want. -This is a physically delimiting boundary. If I alternate the colors and sizes of lettering this is likewise physically delimiting. Unless you are used to it -the neural pathway isn't there.
You will take longer to read it at first but like anything -if you practice you will be able to adapt. This is hardly mind control. Just like if I spoke in a foreign language
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Ist dieser Verstand Steuerung?
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You CAN understand it; you'll just have to learn the language first. Is that mind control? If a foreigner speaks to me in a foreign language are they engaging in mind control?
Obviously no. Just because you aren't used to something and I introduce it as a code doesn't mean that I am controlling you.
(This point seems vague, but relevant to
why the where system gets confused by juxtaposing text... the neural pathways aren't set for it... just like my neural pathways aren't set for reading portugese.)
Sappy movies abound. I wonder if Ancient Greek Tragedists thought they were manipulating their audience or if their audience was manipulating them? They were writing for the audience after all.
When I sit down to watch my sappy movie. I know damn well what it is that I intend to watch. Nobody in the culture is forcing me to watch Brian's Song but I bet there are very few who'll stick through it if they aren't interested.
Kind of like asking how many Conservative Christians watch "
Queer Eye for the Straight Guy". They don't generally because people make their choices about media or they tune it out. I guarantee if you forced people to watch something that didn't interest them -they would ignore it. It happens all the time.