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I'd totally concurred with your ideas about the tabloid-ish headline given the column--or at least the hundreds of previous headlines open to that interpretation...
This one changed my mind the instant I saw it! The whole point of the article is 'influencing the collective consciousness'; what better way to do that than publishing your pro-active article with a title that will more readily place it in a search-engine?
Seriously, name one...