link to original reddit post by /u/ihaphleas
No one was ever convinced by logical argument of anything they weren't emotionally prepared for.
We've all heard of the effect that opposing facts just deepen a person's belief in their own side.
We know that those on the left really only have to make emotional pleas ... and that they produce much more art than we do.
I think many of you know that even when one "wins" an argument with facts and logic, the opposing side isn't really convinced. They just feel beaten and bludgeoned ... they resent you for showing them the truth.
I used to be a mathematician, and I can say, not even a mathematician is willing to immediately accept a proof of something to which they were emotionally opposed ... or even unprepared. They have to go through all the stages of grief to finally come to terms with it.
We cannot hope that the seeds of freedom (not those "freedom seeds") will grow, unless we prepare the soil.
And the soil of the mind has to be prepared emotionally ... points of view can be *defended* by facts and logic ... but people are not *convinced* that way ... or at least they aren't convinced by logical argument until there is emotional preparedness or openness.
This is all to say: we need more art, we need more direct emotional appeals, we need more *personal*, daily life appeals.
An example: How I Found Freedom in an Unfree World is a direct, personal book, it's not literature, but it explains how the reader can improve *their own life right now* ... this is opposed to books about the national debt and the Fed and the like.
I think we're getting better at memeing, taxation is theft, etc., but we really need to continue more in this direction of art and emotional appeal ... hearts must sway before minds change.