The pseudonym "Philo Vaihinger" has been abandoned. All posts have been and are written by me, Joseph Auclair.

Saturday, September 20, 2014

Fallacies of numbing grossness

Arguments made in propaganda are that.

It is as close to a universal law on the subject as you can get.

On the whole, propaganda aspires to be coarse, ignorant, and very stupid.

That is in its nature.

Is it because it is addressed to people who are coarse, ignorant, and very stupid?

Or because talking such egregious rot to your face demonstrates the power relations at work?

It is a particularly brutal style of talking de haut en bas, after all.

An example is the bland stupidity of the liberal argument that there are no witches because there is no Devil.

Or that witches are harmless because there is no Devil.

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