I was reading an article (from another thread) on the adventist history of jwism, and pondered these couple of sentences.
"....distributing the Society's literature from house to house. By 1927 this door-to-door literature distribution had become an essential activity required of all members. The literature consisted primarily of Rutherford's unremitting series of attacks against government, against Prohibition, against "big business," and against the Roman Catholic Church."
When I think of the historical effects of media (including fashion) on the non-discerning public, I wonder are jws simply susceptible victims of a concerted media effort, and particularly those having grown up with it. People read the paper and watch the tele, and end up cooking, eating, wearing, driving, living in and listening to just about everything that is continually served up to them, until it grates on them - then they'll change.
It seems that the strong effort of dressing neat and distributing media, concertedly and doggedly pursued by wt leaders, with all the sales images that go with it, has effected the gaining of sufficient numbers to perpetrate a cultural shift in thought for many. Such a thing here is called a "beat up", whereby much can be made of something, and people made to dance if drums are beaten constantly and loudly enough.
Bizarre.