01-10-2011, 08:37 PM
Schopenhauer wrote:
They call every dissident a Nazi without the slightest clue what they are talking about...anti-immigrationist, religious fundamentalist of various persuasions, racialist, survivalist, right-wing libertarian...
Quote:Stratagem XXXIIBandwagon appeal...
If you are confronted with an assertion, there is a short way of getting rid of it, or, at any rate, of throwing
suspicion on it, by putting it into some odious category; even though the connection is only apparent, or else
of a loose character. You can say, for instance,
“That is Manichaeism” or “It is Arianism,” or “Pelagianism,” or
“Idealism,” or “Spinozism,” or “Pantheism,” or “Brownianism,” or
“Naturalism,” or “Atheism,” or “Rationalism,” “Spiritualism,”
“Mysticism,” and so on.
In making an objection of this kind, you take it for granted (1) that the assertion in question is identical with,
or is at least contained in, the category cited—that is to say, you cry out, “Oh, I have heard that before”; and
(2) that the system referred to has been entirely refuted, and does not contain a word of truth.
They call every dissident a Nazi without the slightest clue what they are talking about...anti-immigrationist, religious fundamentalist of various persuasions, racialist, survivalist, right-wing libertarian...
A.A Mole University
B.A London Institute of Applied Research
B.Sc Millard Fillmore
M.A International Institute for Advanced Studies
Ph.D London Institute of Applied Research
Ph.D Millard Fillmore
B.A London Institute of Applied Research
B.Sc Millard Fillmore
M.A International Institute for Advanced Studies
Ph.D London Institute of Applied Research
Ph.D Millard Fillmore

