humanities.philosophy.objectivism

Matt W. Barrow wrote:

> > Holy cow. He really says that? Maybe I should watch that movie after all
> > -- it sounds hilarious. Probably still not as funny as the Roland
> > Emmerich version, I'd guess.
>
> I didn't find hysterics funny when Lucille Ball did them as "Lucy" and
> they're not funny now.

Good point. But. There's a point where hysterics go so far that they're
almost indistinguishable from satire. The only thing to stop me finding
it entertaining, then, would be the knowledge that they're SERIOUS, and
that they're groping for my wallet. Still funny sometimes.

> >> doing the distorting? Seems to me the government globalists are pushing
> >> forward lies and relying on someone else to correct them. Funny how the
> >> media has failed to chastise their darling Gore for his exaggerated
> >> claims.

> The tactic of throwing numerous "facts" out and not responding when those
> "facts" are rebutted is common.

> There should be a name for it when one saturates the debate with BS and
> makes the oppostion rebutt them one at a time.

We could call it the "SHITSTORM FALLACY." How would that be?


> > crazy claims like this one seem okay, if they happen to point in the
> > same direction as the more-tame GW claims.
>
> The vast majority of people don't know the difference between "claims" and
> real facts. That is the mindset that keeps Art Bell, George Noury, and the
> pseudo-science crowd in business. Call it "national gullibility", and

Yeah. Sigh. Somebody out there, can't remember who offhand, keeps saying
that if the American public had even a slight encounter with basic
economics in their education, none of the nincompoops' "social justice"
reforms would get any traction -- in fact would have been immediately
laughed off the national stage -- instead of having been solemnly
enacted as our moral duty for generations. Oh shit: I just realized I
played right into your next claim...

> understand that such has been a major aim of the educational "establishment"
> for over 100 years.

You're really that cynical about their aims? I can't necessarily
disagree; I just tend to cynically assume that they all have their heads
up their asses and have absolutely no clue as to how intelligence works
or what kids need to learn to survive, and so on... rather than
cynically assuming they're doing it on purpose...