SMART PEOPLE DISCOUNT THE COST AND FREQUENCY OF DECEPTION (worth repeating) (rep

SMART PEOPLE DISCOUNT THE COST AND FREQUENCY OF DECEPTION

(worth repeating) (reposted for archiving)

—“One of the problems those of us at the lofty reaches fall prey to is ‘smart people disease’. (Projection Bias) Because we are both better able to identify deception and error, and because we associate with people better able to identify deception and error, and because we and those we associate with encounter less deception and error, we discount the near universal presence of deception even if we do not discount the near universal presence of error. The biggest threat to rational discourse is not error, or fallacy, it is deception, obscurantism, and postmodernism. Against which, Victorian ethics are a handicap.”—

This is politics.

Draw intellectual blood.

Defeat your opponent completely.

In public, with fanfare.