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Minds Can’t Cope
W
hile the mind may be a mystery, we know one thing for
certain: it’s under attack.
In Positioning: The Battle for Your Mind, we made a great
deal of the fact that America has become the world’s first
“overcommunicated” society. The explosion of media forms
and the ensuing increase in the volume of communications
have dramatically affected the way people either take in or
ignore the information offered them. Overcommunication has
changed the whole game of communicating with and influ-
encing people.
Well, what I thought was “overload” in the ’70s turns out
to be just warming up in the ’90s. Here are some statistics
that dramatize the problem: ...