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Authored by: stegu on Thursday, September 06 2012 @ 01:59 AM EDT |
Yes, "doublespeak" and "doublethink" are advanced
forms of delusion and self-delusion that supposedly
are made possible largely through "newspeak",
according to George Orwell. He believed strongly in
the power of language and authority to control
people's thoughts, as do I.
Verbalize contradictory and provably false statements
eloquently enough, and many people will tend to
just blindly accept your stated conclusions because
it sounds as if you know what you are talking about.
Most people don't actually listen to arguments or
analyze them, they just remember the headlines of
news and the simple slogans from politicians.
The problem for Hogan is that his audience now does
not consist of people in general (like his peers in
the jury), but of people far more knowledgeable than
him in the relevant fields of technology and law.
His arguments are bad and his conclusions are wrong,
but it is good to see what he was thinking. It is
so much easier to shoot down a false argument when
you get to see the flawed reasoning behind it.
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