tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post3500516016543355291..comments2024-03-18T08:02:51.154-07:00Comments on Had Enough Therapy?: Selling Big LiesStuart Schneidermanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12784043736879991769noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-34954536255930917332017-06-19T09:35:09.706-07:002017-06-19T09:35:09.706-07:00Governor Moonbeam is well, and accurately, named.Governor Moonbeam is well, and accurately, named.Sam L.https://www.blogger.com/profile/00996809377798862214noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-49028592899953684462017-06-19T05:24:45.725-07:002017-06-19T05:24:45.725-07:00The new Confederate flag:
https://flagspot.net/fl...The new Confederate flag:<br /><br />https://flagspot.net/flags/qt-e-clm.html<br /><br />The "Climate Alliance", WA, CA, and NY, have declared a confederacy of states to engage in a foreign policy engagement with the major players in the Paris "Accord"...<br /><br />"It is a little bold to talk about the China-California partnership as though we were a separate nation, but we are a separate nation,”<br />--- Gov Jerry Brown (via USA Today)<br /><br />As soon as IL is in, I say we let them go, and move the border checkpoints to the existing state lines.<br /><br />On second thought, why wait?trigger warninghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06310637474428322994noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-43452985574561132492017-06-19T04:26:33.278-07:002017-06-19T04:26:33.278-07:00Stuart: A great propagandist will sell you a narra...Stuart: A great propagandist will sell you a narrative that makes no sense. <br /><br />That statement itself might be propaganda, since it doesn't really make sense.<br /><br />Perhaps this misperception can be explained by tribal thinking? When you see someone arguing from a different tribe, it makes no sense to you, so you assume it is trying to trick you, and you don't understand why that tribe has bought it so readily.<br /><br />I've also heard that we tries the hardest to convince others of things we ourselves are unsure about, so if you're unsure, but you can convince someone else, you'll feel better that you're on the right track. And Einstein even supposedly said you don't really understand something unless you can explain it to your grandmother. But that still doesn't solve the propaganda problem - your grandmother may want to believe you, and not ask critical questions.<br /><br />I recall the quote "The best lies are half truths", and that makes more sense. We're always more susceptible to deception when it starts with things we agree with, but ends with claimed conclusions which really are self-interested opinions. So this apparently works well when you're speaking to homogeneous audience whom all want to believe the same thing. But if the premise itself is questionable, because you stand outside of that echo chamber, you see right through it.<br /><br />My best understanding is that hard problems, including political ones, are "divergent problems" where the best solutions don't come out of one way of thinking, but come out of multiple points of view, and the worse solutions arrive when one narrative controls everything and tries to assert itself as the only valid approach.<br /><br />People who sell "final solutions" are usually the biggest liars, since they've very convincing. If you make your enemies disappear, then the issues they carry for you might also disappear.<br />Ares Olympushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09726811306826601686noreply@blogger.com