“How much truth is contained in something can be best determined by making it thoroughly laughable and then watching to see how much joking around it can take. For truth is a matter that can withstand mockery, that is freshened by any ironic gesture directed at it. Whatever cannot withstand satire is false.” — Peter Sloterdijk
March 29, 2013
Too Much Gibberish Online
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October 8, 2011
The Watson Circus: Destroying Communication Itself
Posted by franc under censorship, ethics, fascism, gender, great idiots of the world, hyperreality, misandry, moral panic, new new atheism, nihilism, nonsense, propaganda, pseudo-skepticism, puritanism, shrieking hysteria, yellow journalism | Tags: Almost Diamonds, baboon board, Butterflies and Wheels, career victims, freethoughtblogs, Jason Thibeault, ophelia benson, slave morality, Sloterdijk, Stephanie Zvan, victim feminism |[11] Comments
The Watsonista spiritual mentor
I wrote this in an earlier post, but did not expand –
It reminds me of an observation made by Peter Sloterdijk in his Critique of Cynical Reason –
“The violent, antirationalistic impulse in Western countries is reacting to an intellectual state of affairs in which all thinking has become strategy“
This is what we are seeing here – all language and communication reduced to strategy. This is the precursor to all communication is propaganda, or more simply, when communication itself, a two way transfer of unfiltered information1, ceases.
This nonsense dissection of language has nothing to do with discourse or exchange of ideas, and everything to do with finding strategic advantage.
What you say is not relevant. How what you say can be reframed for advantage is.
Communication is reduced to propaganda. It ceases to be communication with any value. (more…)
grey lining 