epictetus
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Joined: 06 May 2007
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Location: Washington D.C.
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| Posted: Wed 0909 May 07, 9 pm Post subject: How to preserve Ellis' legacy and promote REBT |
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Please consider this as an open letter to anyone involved with Albert Ellis.
I keep coming across citations for things Ellis wrote years ago that have fallen out of publication and that are no longer available.
I know many people are interested in preserving and promoting Ellis' legacy.....REBT, unwatered down, in the spirit of how he defined it.
One way to do this would be to get permission ( and solicit funds for ) putting his writings into electronic form and releasing them under the public domain.
His multimedia products likewise, say on youtube.
Doing these things would "grease" distribution of his ideas. There is now a generation of people that look to the web as their first ( all too often last ) stop for information.
If it is on the web and easy to get access to they will check it out.
One of the worst to promote ideas that people don't want to hear or do not want to take the time to slow down for is to put up additional barriers between them and the information.
I see activists doing this all over the place these days. They have a message people are too busy to hear or do not want to hear. On top of that they rely on transmitting that information in a way that the public has to PAY to hear it.
As much as is practical I think the best way to spread new ideas is to get it on the web, make the ideas free, and generally make access as easy as possible.
If the ideas are good and presented well donations will follow. Look at Howard Dean.
End of sermon....um.....open letter |
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