Deceptions LAUNDERING: Laundering actions and individuals via aggregation into symbols, objects and entities LOADING: Loading with emotional or moral sentiments FRAMING: Framing by selection of causes and properties OVERLOADING: Overloading by production of a multitude of arguments Applications THE COSMOPOLITAN TECHNIQUE: CRITIQUE: Using all of the above to defend a straw man by attacking with overloading, framing, loading and laundering. An elaborate means of distraction from a hidden agenda. THE GERMAN TECHNIQUE – KANTIAN: an attempt to justify moral authority independent of experience. THE ANGLO TECHNIQUE – POSTMODERNISM: an attempt to conflate fact and value, such that value distorts fact.
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