—“The most effective form of propaganda is the truth. The difference between propaganda and information is that propaganda has a persuasive political purpose.”—John Mattison
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—“The most effective form of propaganda is the truth. The difference between propaganda and information is that propaganda has a persuasive political purpose.”—John Mattison
Source date (UTC): 2018-07-12 17:42:54 UTC
I have a framework called testimony: internally consistent, externally correspondent, operationally describable, rational of choice, reciprocal of rational choice, limited, fully accounted, and parsimonious. As far as I know that is ever dimension of perception available to man.
Source date (UTC): 2018-07-12 16:54:30 UTC
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I’m happy if you want to discuss which dependency is first: what it is we can say we speak of and what it is we claim exists using our speech. 😉 In case you don’t grok that, it inverts your presupposition. 😉
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No I’m saying truth is parsimonious and knowledge (wisdom) and truth (parsimony) are different things. How we cast the term ‘knowledge’ as ‘truthful’ or not requires agreement on terms,
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GOOD PROPAGANDA MUST BE TRUE
via Cole Williams
—“… Good propaganda does not need to lie, indeed it may not lie. It has no reason to fear the truth. It is a mistake to believe that the people cannot take the truth. They can. It is only a matter of presenting the truth to people in a way that they will be able to understand. A propaganda that lies proves that it has a bad cause. It cannot be successful in the long run. A good propaganda will always come along that serves a good cause. But propaganda is still necessary if a good cause is to succeed. A good idea does not win simply because it is good. It must be presented properly if it is to win. The combination makes for the best propaganda. Such propaganda is successful without being obnoxious. It depends on its nature, not its methods. It works without being noticed. Its goals are inherent in its nature. Since it is almost invisible, it is effective and powerful. A good cause will lose to a bad one if it depends only on its rightness, while the other side uses the methods of influencing the masses. We are, for example, firmly convinced that we fought the war for a good cause, but that was not enough. The world should also have known and seen that our cause was good. However, we lacked the effective means of mass propaganda to make that clear to the world. Marxism certainly did not fight for great ideals. Despite that, in November 1918 it overcame Kaiser, Reich, and the army because it was superior in the art of mass propaganda…” – Dr. Joseph Goebbels.
Source date (UTC): 2018-07-12 16:04:00 UTC
WHAT IS THE PURPOSE OF PHILOSOPHY?
1) To develop mental fitness and distance from our impulses (to develop agency)
2) To accumulate an inventory of human errors and bias so that we do not make them in our own lives, and are not affected by others who employ them.
3) To survey the sets of myths and paradigms (stories we tell ourselves) such that we can choose goals in our lives.
4) (the bad part) to find a verbal means of achieving some degree of the mindfulness that is trainable through religion(mythology), ritual (prayer or repetitious action), and self authoring (stoicism – a ritual), and meditation (a ritual in and of itself). Mindfuless serves as a sedative for animal impulse, without the soporific affect of chemicals
that interfere with processing in general..
As far as I know that is the end of philosophy. The rest is just left to religion(nonsense/lies) or science (decidability/truth).
Nearly all of the corpus of philosophy is reducible to fantasy moral literature (french), or fantasy psychological Literature (german), fantasy pseudoscientific literature (ashkenazi), or the attempt to develop scientific versions of those fields (english, American.)
The problem with science, law proper, and truth proper is that in matters of the personal and social we are not ambivalent neutral surveyors of the material – but seek only personal and group advantage in whatever we can filter from it to advance our interests.
Yet science and truth are uncomfortable and dehumanizing.
So to no small degree, philosophy is PRACTICED as the pseudoscience and pseudo-rationalism of finding excuses that comfort us given our genetic, social, economic, cultural, and temporal conditions without relying on the demands easily falsified and supernatural faith.
In other words, like religion, it’s therapeutic self medication – sedation.
Source date (UTC): 2018-07-12 15:02:00 UTC
MY SIMPLE METHODOLOGY: LOCKER ROOM VS PORCH
I have a very simple methodology: the truth. the truth provides decidability. And I don’t leave room for pragmatism. By allowing one pragmatic falsehood you allow all pragmatic falsehoods. By disallowing all falsehoods, no matter how practical, you leave only the truth.
—“I get that you teach by a startling statement and follow-up Devil’s advocate questions. But sometime we lose the forest for trying to define a tree.”—Anne Summers
It’s just the socratic method. Propose an assertion that will either reinforce or oppose a norm. Then we all debate until we understand.
I love teaching online. It’s just more like teaching in a Locker Room or Bar than the vaulted porch of athenian wisdom….. lol
Source date (UTC): 2018-07-12 14:43:00 UTC
A SYLLOGISM SUBJECTS A STATEMENT TO MARKET COMPETITION
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ARISTOTLE’S TESTIMONIALISM
—“Following Plato’s death, Aristotle immersed himself in empirical studies and shifted from Platonism to empiricism. He believed all concepts and knowledge were ultimately based on perception.”—
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