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Kind of sad this never got to be at its full potential
Then again it is just -
"Anyways, the first thing I want to mention is that I hope that this treatise has successfully functioned as a conduit for new thought. Doesn't matter what thoughts come out. As you certainly know by now: thinking is a luxury act, any new ideas are appreciated. If reading this whole thing made you consider any new ideas, then I have succeeded. My work here is done."
Well, here's a thought experiment. Has it already happened unintentionally, or possibly even been done intentionally? Even if incomplete, has it already attempted to happen? I don't know and I'm very interested in the answer. History is one of my bigger weaknesses when it comes to this kind of stuff.
Step 0: Be popular enough for any of what you're about to do have some kind of observable effect.
Step 1: Pick your favorite fallacy.
Step 2: Use that fallacy to justify already popular stuff.
Step 3: Slowly start using the fallacy for stuff that others would agree with but haven't thought about yet.
Step 4: I'm not entirely sure what the best execution of this step is, but it's one of these two:
- Point out the fallacy and stuff it justifies, marketing it as a legitimate reasoning strategy in a way that makes your audience use it regularly. I'm not sure how well it would work, given discussing specific reasoning isn't a thing I hear of often, but if it does work it's going to be a lot faster and be easier to observe.
- Alternatively, just continue what you were already doing until people subconsciously start using the fallacy. It will be slow and hard to observe, but it seems more likely to work to me and could be more effective (others not in your audience might start using it subconsciously by proxy)?
Step 5: Record results. Is the fallacy now permanently ingrained in popular culture? Can people now easily justify anything, or even better, specifically the things that you like with a single easy trick? Is reasoning dead forever?
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