When you cause effects others cannot experience easily, your intentions do not matter. Trying to be right when others can’t follow your logic, only creates counter-intention to you and everything you represent. Watching Donald Trump speak during tonight’s debate, I could easily see why many people are upset with him. He was exceeding their reality almost every time he opened his mouth and the tension in his voice showed that he realized he was losing his audience.
It felt like a replay of an ancient event where a Roman audience was cheering for the lions instead of the Christians and other victims the lions were attacking. I think it was a mistake for Trump to do a live debate where the playing ground and the moderation were controlled by groups hostile to his ideas. If Trump and his people had limited their output to a safe channel where followers and interested parties could assess his ideas on their merits, the messages would have come across stronger and would have been spread by others who were in favor of what he was proposing. Watching Trump breaking Rule #1 was disappointing.
Rule #1 is: Cause only those effects that others can experience easily.
If everything you say causes your listeners to go ballistic, you are speaking to the wrong audience. It does not matter what your message is, your audience cannot easily experience what you have to say. You need to find a safe place to speak from and that means an audience that can understand and accept what you have to share with them. It has been said that truth is in the eye of the beholder and that seems to translate to “What is true for you is what you have observed for yourself.” If a person has been conditioned to accept something as fact, they will not easily accept anything that challenges that fact.
Anyone who is espousing new ideas will eventually encounter people who have adopted different ideas. If the person espousing the new ideas does not evaluate the reception of new ideas before launching into a full-blown presentation of the ideas, the inevitable result will be counter-intention.
This is why you look for a safe point from which to speak up and launch your new ideas. The safe point can be a location, a communication channel, a news medium, or a friendly group to talk to. If this person speaks to a friendly group, he will get useful feedback and support which will enable him to spread his message further. Delivering a message to a hostile group is a waste of time and effort. It will only enable those who do not want to hear the message to find ways to oppose its dissemination.
Speak to groups who want to hear your message. Broadcasting your message to groups who do not agree in any way will cause them to oppose and silence your message.