Define the Term Spin Doctor?
"a spokesperson employed to give a favourable interpretation of events to the media, especially on behalf of a political party."1
"In public relations and politics, spin is a form of propaganda, achieved through knowingly providing a biased interpretation of an event or campaigning to influence public opinion about some organization or public figure. While traditional public relations and advertising may manage their presentation of facts, "spin" often implies the use of disingenuous, deceptive, and manipulative tactics."2
Personality of a Spin Doctor:
"One adaptive trait
common to all animals is nervous systems and sensations – feelings.
Freud noticed that feelings are internal representations of what
organisms must respond to well in order to survive. Sex and nutrition
taste good. To lust for them is good for biological reproductive
success.
But not always. Freud noticed that too. What you
lust for is sometimes at odds with what’s good for you. With
feelings, our striving to fit our reality gets some competition. We
want to survive but we also want to feel good. They aren’t always
the same thing or else an opioid addiction would be the secret to
survival.
And then there’s us humans. We evolved another
internal representation of our external reality: language and with
it, concepts and the technology to spread our ideas. Ideas can make
us more realistic but also less realistic especially since they’re
riding atop our emotions. We want to be realistic, but even more, we
want to feel realistic. The feeling is easier had through
self-confidence and self-promotion than through careful attempts to
fit our reality.
What do you get when you
cross life’s responsiveness to reality with an animal’s feelings
and with a human’s capacity to conceptualize? You get a rhetorical
animal, a creature that tries to persuade itself and others of
concepts that play on our feelings regardless of how realistic they
are.
Humans are doubly detachable from reality, both by emotions
and by language, which combined, make us the rhetorical creatures we
are, creatures easily besotted by confirmation bias: The tendency to
embrace what affirms and deflect what disaffirms.
Confirmation bias is the most likely cause of our species’ extinction, people and cults convinced by their own rhetoric, unpersuadable to face and adapt to reality.
Rhetoric is defined variously. It sometimes just means communication. Here I’m focused on it as spin –appealing to our appetites for emotional confirmation. As such, it’s like a few other practices: Politics as distinct from statecraft, and romance in all its forms, attempts to promote some ideas and demote other ideas by playing on our feelings."3
Politics and Tension in Society:
Why do people vote during election time? Due to the tension in society, politicians are capitalizing on those tension issues to convince voters to vote for them because their political platform will solve all the stresses in society.
Politicians create tensions in society by cutting back on social programs or expanding some programs that are unnecessary for society's growth.
Today, Negar Mortavazi and Peyman Maadi are playing the role of the spin doctor. Ms. Mortavazi and Mr. Maadi have ideas on their minds to legitimize the Islamic Republic of Iran's human rights violations inside Iran and normalize the Islamic Republic of Iran's asymmetrical warfare.
Consequently, Iranians are experiencing human rights violations in Iran, and they witness how the regime in Iran is wasting resources rather than allocating those funds toward the growth of Iran. The mullahs are buying guns and bullets to fight the US.
In the US, politicians like Joe Biden need voters to vote for them. They are pursuing a policy of tension in society. Mr. Biden allows Ms. Mortazavi to appear close to him during election time. Iranians in the diaspora become concerned about their safety and security. They are making campaign contributions during election time to prevent another episode of the 1979 Revolution in the US.
In the primary time, Ms. Mortazavi is power-hungry and has a huge ego; she loves the tension and dynamic of power that she can control and give direction about the public opinion. She pays public relations (PR) agency to depict her as a superstar. The PR agency gets the cash and makes her a megastar of all times to shine in a dark galaxy for everyone to mesmerize. How is it possible she is an inspirational person? How did Forbes magazine selected and give her such a lofty image? The public relations agency needs money and will do the magic. Please check amazon or Chapter and Indigo for self-publishing books. Their agencies are receiving hardcore cash, and the books are becoming best-sellers or authors of the month.
Regarding Mr. Maadi, kindly pay close attention to the person is interviewing. The interviewer is a woman; at first, she is smiling as Maadi is talking. She received a message and could hear the sound of receiving a message. She looked at the screen of her computer; her facial expression changed. She was biting her lips and wanted to end the interview.
In conclusion, Iranians in the diaspora are looking at Mortavazi and Maadi as Trojan Horses in the US who want to export Khomeini's revolution in the US. Iranians are panicking and are saying, "We got to do something. We do not want another revolution in the US." They are making campaign contributions to the politicians and are taking part in stagnant US politics.
In reality, US politicians are collaborating with the mullahs in Iran because the US politicians are making the US unsafe for everyone.
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Peyman ADL DOUSTI HAGH
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1Oxford-Google. 14 March 2021
2Safire, W. (1996, December 22). The spinner spun. Retrieved March 14, 2021, from https://www.nytimes.com/1996/12/22/magazine/the-spinner-spun.html
3Sherman, J. (2020, March 16). The spin doctor's hippocratic oath. Retrieved March 14, 2021, from https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/ambigamy/202003/the-spin-doctors-hippocratic-oath
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