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Commentariat
Mainstream Publications
Center-Left
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Attempt to shrink the Overton Window by ignoring rival non-mainstream networks or reputation-bash their character by labeling/associating them with one of the 'woke' -ism's
Ignore any stories that run counter to the 'woke' narrative.
Evergreen State College underwent a Maoist takeover and the NYT didn't mention it in the news for 3.5 weeks because it displayed racism of blacks and anti-racism of whites
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Strategy
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Plausible Deniability: leverages the burden of proof to declare guilt to deny knowledge of certain actions
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Society
Politics
Parliamentary Democratic Republics depend on an underlying growing economy. The great depression lead to many countries becoming dictatorships.
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Economy
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The specific narrative for each decade to encourage investment and explain why the supposed growth is hard to detect
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Equally bullish narratives that sound less bullish over time to allow for the willfully ignorant to maintain plausible deniability
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Ideology
'Woke' Ideology
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Progressive. Moral bads belong to a backwards past where someone believes someone is better than someone else by product of their birth (racism/sexism/xenophobia/homophobia/transphobia). Moral goods address these structural biases and correct for them. Fair sexual representation in any field is assumed to be 50/50. Minimize effects of biological nature in the nature/nurture debate. Climate change is an immediate existential threat and we must switch energy sources from fossil fuels to renewable energy.
Focus primarily on how straight, white, Christian men have been oppressive/biased instead of equally finding blame amongst all groups for their historic biases.
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Psychology
Logical Fallacies
Sunk cost: justifying your decision to continue a specific course of action by the amount of time or money you’ve already spent on it.
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Ad hominem: attempts to invalidate an opponent’s position based on a personal trait or fact about the opponent rather than through logic.
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Straw man: argues against a hyperbolic, inaccurate version of the opposition rather than their actual argument.
Equivocation: a statement crafted to mislead or confuse readers or listeners by using multiple meanings or interpretations of a word or simply through unclear phrasing.
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Slippery slope: a specific series of events will follow one starting point, typically with no supporting evidence for this chain of events.
Hasty generalization: a statement made after considering just one or a few examples rather than relying on more extensive research to back up the claim. What constitutes sufficient research depends on the issue at hand and the statement being made about it.
Appeal to authority: the arguer claims an authority figure’s expertise to support a claim despite this expertise being irrelevant or overstated.
False dilemma/dichotomy: claims there are only two options in a given situation. Often, these two options are extreme opposites of each other, failing to acknowledge that other, more reasonable, options exist.
Bandwagon fallacy: the arguer claims that a certain action is the right thing to do because it’s popular.
Appeal to ignorance/burden of proof: claim that something must be true because it hasn’t been proven false. It can also be a claim that something must be false because it hasn’t been proven true.
Circular argument: uses the same statement as both the premise and the conclusion. No new information or justification is introduced.
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Appeal to hypocrisy/tu quoque: a rebuttal that responds to one claim with reactive criticism rather than with a response to the claim itself.
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Drink
Wine
Portugese Wine
Madeira
Undergo heating and oxidation process called 'estufagem' which prevents it from going bad. Analogy to describe something that is born in an anti-fragile state.
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Story Device
MacGuffin
An object, device, or event that is necessary to the plot and the motivation of the characters, but insignificant in itself.
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Neuroscience
Cognitive Bias
Anchoring bias is the tendency to rely on the first piece of information offered, particularly to numbers.
The framing effect occurs when people make a choice based on whether the options presented to them are phrased in a positive or a negative way (e.g. 80% lean beef vs 20% fat beef)
Actor–observer bias is the tendency to attribute our actions to external factors and other people’s actions to internal ones.
The availability bias applies when we place greater value on information that is available to us or comes to mind quickly. Because of this, we tend to overestimate the probability of similar things happening again.
Confirmation bias refers to our tendency to look for evidence confirming what we already believe, viewing facts and ideas we encounter as further confirmation. Confirmation bias also leads us to ignore any evidence that seems to support an opposing view/willful ignorance.
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The halo effect refers to how our perception of a single trait can influence how we perceive other aspects, particularly in regards to someone’s personality.
The Baader–Meinhof phenomenon/frequency illusion is the tendency to see new information, names, or patterns “everywhere” soon after they’re first brought to our attention.
The belief bias describes the tendency to judge an argument based on how plausible we find the conclusion to be, rather than how much evidence is provided to support this conclusion over the course of the argument.
The affect heuristic occurs when our current emotional state or mood influences our decisions. Instead of evaluating the situation objectively, we rely on our “gut feelings” and respond according to how we feel.
The representativeness heuristic occurs when we estimate the probability of an event based on how similar it is to a known situation. In other words, we compare it to a situation, prototype, or stereotype we already have in mind.
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