Monday, January 30, 2017
Tuesday, January 24, 2017
Post-Truth/Alternative-Facts circa 2004:
“We’re an empire now, and when we act, we create our own reality. And while you’re studying that reality — judiciously, as you will — we’ll act again, creating other new realities, which you can study too, and that’s how things will sort out. We’re history’s actors . . . and you, all of you, will be left to just study what we do.”
“We’re an empire now, and when we act, we create our own reality. And while you’re studying that reality — judiciously, as you will — we’ll act again, creating other new realities, which you can study too, and that’s how things will sort out. We’re history’s actors . . . and you, all of you, will be left to just study what we do.”
Alternative Facts
Matters of Fact versus Matter of Opinion:
It used to be the case that the right-wing were not very sophisticated in their use of rhetorical techniques, unlike the left, (almost borderline *stupid*). Now they are getting good at it. They are *blending* a swirling mix of techniques that comes at you quite quickly. If one is not adept at seeing what they are doing you might get lost, confused, and/or seriously misled.
Of course, this becomes all the more problematic in a post-fact, echo chamber.
As Critical Thinking teachers we have two serious missions:
(1.) Teach students how to evaluate arguments.
(2.) Teach students how to spot mental manipulation/mind-control.
It used to be the case that the right-wing were not very sophisticated in their use of rhetorical techniques, unlike the left, (almost borderline *stupid*). Now they are getting good at it. They are *blending* a swirling mix of techniques that comes at you quite quickly. If one is not adept at seeing what they are doing you might get lost, confused, and/or seriously misled.
Of course, this becomes all the more problematic in a post-fact, echo chamber.
As Critical Thinking teachers we have two serious missions:
(1.) Teach students how to evaluate arguments.
(2.) Teach students how to spot mental manipulation/mind-control.
This is my previous blog to which this is a new sister. ;)
https://criticalthinkingexamples.blogspot.com/
https://criticalthinkingexamples.blogspot.com/
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