Why is it that people trying to move the “Overton Window” further and further away from reason and morality and in to post-modernism (where opinions replace facts) constantly use straw man arguments?
Simple answer: that is all they have.
This is the basic premise of a straw man argument.
Straw man arguments are used to take the exception NOT the rule and use stories to create emotion and sell people on the concept why something must be done.
Humans don’t get persuaded by logic, they get moved by emotions (stories.)
What most of us forget though is that empathy exists in a world where we operate in reality.
But to really move and persuade people we divide them up in to classes or groups and then pit them against each other with straw man arguments and prey on the good nature of each human to blindly trust that those in positions of power would never lie or do anything to hurt other people.
They rely on the fact they know most people will never fact check them or give more than two seconds of thought to check them.
Arguments against first principles/nature’s law are generally emotional and based off of the “one percent” cases.
Transgender debate – where less than 0.3-0.5% of adult population (1.4 million) is identifying as this but we put our children at risk in bathrooms and in sports, for what?
Abortion – rape and incest account for around 1.5-2% of the pregnancies and we make policy of murdering children because of the stories people tell you about not being able to control your body.
Gun rights – the 400 million guns in the country that commit no crimes but one mentally deranged person goes off and we need to eliminate guns? How come we don’t do this with opioids? With cars? With knives? Facts aren’t kind to those with narratives and talking points.
Acta non-verba: “deeds not words,” as the Marines say.
When you don’t look beyond the emotional one-off story (straw man) or the argument with no context it is easy to make broad sweeping accusations.
Politicians and the unproductive class know that most people won’t spend 5 minutes to go look up this simple information.
Be hard to persuade and quick to lean on your own judgement and discernment.
Trust but verify.
Be the careful guardian for what you allow to enter your subconscious mind.
Look for STEEL MAN arguments that are based in sound principles and logic, not based off of hysteria and emotions.
Woke culture is the creation of which good people on (both sides) have sat by silently and hoped that, “if we just give them this one thing it will all go away…”
How many times does one have to be fooled, topic after topic, until one realizes that evil does not stop until light and truth eradicate it.
Empathy + Accountability + Responsibility + Honesty X Hard Work + Preparation = Free and strong prosperous society where the most people benefit.
As Ayn Rand noted, “we can ignore reality, but we cannot ignore the consequences of ignoring reality.”
Our culture has been distorted by those who seek to gain power over their “opponents.”
People who feel they have been sleighted by society and fell victim for some reason or another.
When in reality everyone is a fallen human and we are all a victim of something and in full control of what we choose to do about it.
How come our leaders aren’t telling us to look to the future and come together but instead seek to look to the past and divide us to bring about revenge?
The longer our money is broken, the longer we can permit falsehoods and fake companies and fake propaganda to exist.
The endless currency printing (that WE fund through inflation) is what pays for the fake marketing campaign of companies and broken campaign promises of politicians.
Our economic time and energy is stolen through inflation and taxes and fed back to us in propagandized marketing from company and government.
How come we seem to keep going the same direction no matter who is in power?
The answer may lie in the fact that very few of us truly respect life.
If we don’t respect life, then how do we respect or value our own life?
Then by extension we certainly won’t respect other’s life if we cannot even respect our own.
If we don’t protect life, then NOTHING else matters.
Bill Gates and the unproductive class are openly making it cool to “off” 10-15% of the population so they can benefit and run your life.
Yuval Harari – you cannot make up these Bond villains if you tried. They try to come across as unsuspecting victims who are getting played yet they are the king makers setting policy and infeliuncing at the highest of levels.
DO NOT BE LED ASTRAY, WE ARE THE ONES GETTING PLAYED.
If they succeed then nothing is sacred and what does any political talking point matter if NONE of us are here?
Why spend energy on anything else if we cannot get the basic fundamental building blocks right?
Life (sanctity of life), liberty (freedoms), and pursuit of happiness (property; owning your “stuff”) were not put in to the American founding documents and in that order for no reason.
Please ask yourself why that is?
Gates, Yuval, Klaus, Soros, and crew could care less about your rights or your body or what you identify as or about climate change.
As evidenced by a seemingly unlimited amount of examples:
Pharma companies having hearings and telling your they lied to your face.
The unproductive class jetting around the world to scold you about spewing hot carbon in to the ether.
The talks above from men who only want power and to eliminate your God-given brain from the Earth.
Mindless drone leaders around the world all saying the same talking points amplified by bought and paid media.
Protests being stopped and participants banks accounts being frozen all around the world.
The unproductive class is using “useful idiots” to do their bidding and trumpet their anti-human agenda.
Time to be wide awake, now.
The madness ends here.
We choose reality, truth, and sound principles.
We reject post-modernism and choose fact over opinions.
We use our higher faculties given to us by the Lord to make our own decisions and be in control of our own lives.
Reason, Will, Imagination, Memory, Perception, Intuition.
I pray for our healing and our discernment.
Stay strong,
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Author Brandon Gentile
