Quote: (12-03-2016 07:03 PM)vinman Wrote:
I think Tariq was doing what we would call maintaining frame.
If he achieved what he wanted to achieve, then good for him.
This could also be a cautionary tale about maintaining frame too hard as well, because further down the line we have masters of frame, the gammas, who hold their frame no matter how ridiculous it looks, and lower down, the narcissists, whose frame becomes even stronger the lower they go, and we end up with schizophrenics, the ultimate masters of holding frame in absolute opposition with reality.
I don't know Nasheed's core audience well enough to know if he scored points with them, and sold more books or whatever, and got publicity with the right kind of people, and it was a win in the end for him.
My personal view as someone aware of him as a game coach and talking head was that he overdid it to some degree, so he never answered any question really, and answered questions with questions, and answered questions with counter accusations, and did a lot of weaseling about meaning of his tweets, and played dumb when Carlson challenged him.
I didn't see it as a win, and it lowered my opinion of him to some degree. There has to be some back and forth, and some reasonableness, and if you never engage a person directly, if you just use them to score points, in the end it reflects as badly on you as it does on them.